Recover data from formatted HDD

*CD 1986* · 17-09-2004

I have a 60Gb drive that i use for storing data files (about 25Gb of it

) and it went west. It was recognised in windows but i couldnt access the data. So i did a quick format to get the drive operational...now i want to try and recover as much of the data as possible. This must be feasible because i only did a quick format so the data should be there. How do i get at it....any good software/utilities you can recommend?

Thanks

*CD 1986* · 17-09-2004

Is Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro anygood?

seppo72 · 17-09-2004

@CD_1986

How good is your german?

Theres a german Version of "O&O Unerase" downloadable there: http://download.stern.de/tv/sterntv/...63&nv=cp_L2_tt

Greetz

Seppo

*CD 1986* · 17-09-2004

Thanks i'll try it out....i don't remember my German GCSE course covering this topic though.

I use O&O's defrag software, hope the unerase software is as good.

*CD 1986* · 22-09-2004

OK having got back all my lost data i haven't touched it for a few days. The contents included cd images, jpegs and divx avi files. I now find that every single file i recovered will not be opened/previewed/played!!!

Seems to be that all the files are now "invalid file format". My mds files can no longer be mounted on DT, windows media player refuses to play movie files. Even though the files are all recovered (same size as the original file size) at the moment they are useless. Any ideas on how/why this happened....and more importantly whether there is anything i can do to overcome it?

Thanks

*xtacydima* · 22-09-2004

Glad to hear you got all your data back. It might be a little too late, but I guess for any future refernces, this thread might prove useful:

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread....ht=getdataback

Perhaps it may also help others by suggesting alternatives...

*CD 1986* · 22-09-2004

Quote:

Originally Posted by xtacydima

Glad to hear you got all your data back.

Yep, and at the minute it's about as useful as.....gay porn for a straight guy!

"Invalid file format"

*alex thyl* · 06-10-2004

CD 1986,

I hope you managed to get back your data in proper file format. I can see that the post is 2 weeks old.

Anyway, if not, you may try this software:
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

*cmr3000x* · 06-10-2004

Make sure you BUY this

.

http://www.guidancesoftware.com/prod...sic/index.shtm

*CD 1986* · 07-10-2004

It's all useless unfortunately, i have it all saved but all are unrecognised file format. Nothing more i can do....

*Nemesys* · 07-10-2004

Too bad. That's quite a shame.
I suspect that a different program might have yielded more positive results.
Several months ago I deleted all three partitions on a client's 60 GB Maxtor drive and created a single partition. It was then that he revealed to me that the drive contained 16 GB of MP3s and his 21 GB porn collection.

Using GetDataBack NTFS I was able to retrieve every single file on the drive. Fewer that a dozen files were corrupted and unplayable.

Elabro · 02-11-2005

Hi,

Actually, you can use data recovery tool to restore lost data. Among them the best ones IMHO are Active@ undelete and Uneraser (DOS) their algorithm is great and they never failed me before. Recommended!
http://www.active-undelete.com/
http://www.uneraser.com/

*Gurm* · 02-11-2005

What likely happened to you is that everything was offset by a few bytes. It happens.

Better recovery programs will show you that there are multiple indexes into the drive, and you can try one or two files from each until you find the right one. Lousier recovery programs just find the first index, even if it's wrong.

Fallingwater · 02-11-2005

I realize it's probably hopeless by now, but what happens if you try to open a text document?

digiKilla · 03-11-2005

Hmmm.. i also had a hard disk failure (Partition & Corrupt Fat tables) and i re-created partitions thinking i had lost all my data. I even installed windows over it, then again i tried a lot of tools to recover data, but honestly nothing "really" worked. Then i used "Recover My Files", i know the name isnt very good

. , but it did its job. I was able to get about 80% of my files. It took me a day to scan my 80GB , but it worked. I was able to get back all my avi's and jpgs and other types that i specified.

I suggest u try recover my files and see if it does any good.

PS: I would like to add that the program reads the file's header and then creates a virtual partition with all your files... So it should be able to get the files that are still intact with proper extension and everything.

*slayerking* · 03-11-2005

you guys realise you are answering to a post that is over a year old?

*Gurm* · 04-11-2005

Gosh Darnit, Elabro!

Read the forum rules. No resurrecting year-old threads.

*Kenshin* · 04-11-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by slayerking

you guys realise you are answering to a post that is over a year old?

Maybe threads like this better be made sticky.

17-09-2004	#1
CD 1986 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 801	Recover data from formatted HDD I have a 60Gb drive that i use for storing data files (about 25Gb of it ) and it went west. It was recognised in windows but i couldnt access the data. So i did a quick format to get the drive operational...now i want to try and recover as much of the data as possible. This must be feasible because i only did a quick format so the data should be there. How do i get at it....any good software/utilities you can recommend? Thanks __________________ My Forum

17-09-2004	#2
CD 1986 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 801	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Is Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro anygood? __________________ My Forum

17-09-2004	#3
seppo72 New on Forum Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 1	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD @CD_1986 How good is your german? Theres a german Version of "O&O Unerase" downloadable there: http://download.stern.de/tv/sterntv/...63&nv=cp_L2_tt Greetz Seppo

17-09-2004	#4
CD 1986 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 801	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Thanks i'll try it out....i don't remember my German GCSE course covering this topic though. I use O&O's defrag software, hope the unerase software is as good. __________________ My Forum

22-09-2004	#5
CD 1986 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 801	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD OK having got back all my lost data i haven't touched it for a few days. The contents included cd images, jpegs and divx avi files. I now find that every single file i recovered will not be opened/previewed/played!!! Seems to be that all the files are now "invalid file format". My mds files can no longer be mounted on DT, windows media player refuses to play movie files. Even though the files are all recovered (same size as the original file size) at the moment they are useless. Any ideas on how/why this happened....and more importantly whether there is anything i can do to overcome it? Thanks __________________ My Forum

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22-09-2004	#6
xtacydima Former Moderator Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posts: 4,009	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Glad to hear you got all your data back. It might be a little too late, but I guess for any future refernces, this thread might prove useful: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread....ht=getdataback Perhaps it may also help others by suggesting alternatives... __________________ My Rig: Corsair Obsidian 750D Corsair HX Series CMPSU-1000HX 1000W PSU Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz running Win7 Ultimate 64bit Corsair H50 Hydro Cooler CWCH50 Intel BOXDZ77GA70K LGA 1155 Intel Z77 motherboard Corsair DOMINATOR 16GB (4 x 4GB) ASUS ENGTX570 DCII/2DIS/1280MD5 GeForce GTX 570 (Fermi) 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 SAMSUNG 840 Pro 512GB Series MZ-7PD512BW WD Caviar Black 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s WD Caviar Black 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s ASUS DRW-24B1ST Pioneer BD-RW BDR-206D *when needed...* Lite-On LTR-52246S 6S0F (via USB 2.0 to IDE) Lite-On JLMS XJ-HD166S DS1C (via USB 2.0 to IDE) *NEC 3500AG 2.TC Quiet* (via USB 2.0 to IDE) Lite-On SOHW 1673S JS07 (via USB 2.0 to IDE) Found a Solution here helpful? Like the forum's? Well then, what are you waiting for JOIN NOW**!!!

06-10-2004	#8
alex thyl MyCE Resident Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,657	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD CD 1986, I hope you managed to get back your data in proper file format. I can see that the post is 2 weeks old. Anyway, if not, you may try this software: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm __________________ MOTTO: "Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer." (Dan Brown) PLEXTOR: "King of Quality".

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07-10-2004	#10
CD 1986 CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: UK Posts: 801	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD It's all useless unfortunately, i have it all saved but all are unrecognised file format. Nothing more i can do.... __________________ My Forum

07-10-2004	#11
Nemesys MyCE Resident Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Florida, USA Posts: 1,349	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Too bad. That's quite a shame. I suspect that a different program might have yielded more positive results. Several months ago I deleted all three partitions on a client's 60 GB Maxtor drive and created a single partition. It was then that he revealed to me that the drive contained 16 GB of MP3s and his 21 GB porn collection. Using GetDataBack NTFS I was able to retrieve every single file on the drive. Fewer that a dozen files were corrupted and unplayable. __________________ Case: Cooler Master HAF 932 Full Tower Motherboard: ASUS P8P67 Deluxe CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4GHz @ 4.8GHz (Cooler Master V8 CPU Cooling) RAM: 8GB Corsair Dominator DDR3 PC12800 Video Card: EVGA GTX460 1GB Sound Card: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio Monitor: HP 2711x (27” LED) Audio System: MASSIVE PSU: Silverstone Strider Plus 1000W DVD-RAM: Lite-On iHAS524 DVD-RAM: Lite-On LH-20A1L BL06 Hard Drive (Internal Storage): Seagate Barracuda 1TB SATA II File Storage Hard Drive (Removables): ICY DOCK MB877SK SATA Screw-Less Mobile Rack Drive #1. 128GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD Win 8 Professional Drive #2. 90GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD WIN 7 Ultimate Drive #3. Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATA II WIN XP x64 Professional Drive #4. Seagate Barracuda 320GB SATA II Testing

02-11-2005	#12
Elabro New on Forum Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 11	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Hi, Actually, you can use data recovery tool to restore lost data. Among them the best ones IMHO are Active@ undelete and Uneraser (DOS) their algorithm is great and they never failed me before. Recommended! http://www.active-undelete.com/ http://www.uneraser.com/

02-11-2005	#13
Gurm CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,940	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD What likely happened to you is that everything was offset by a few bytes. It happens. Better recovery programs will show you that there are multiple indexes into the drive, and you can try one or two files from each until you find the right one. Lousier recovery programs just find the first index, even if it's wrong.

02-11-2005	#14
Fallingwater CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 431	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD I realize it's probably hopeless by now, but what happens if you try to open a text document?

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03-11-2005	#15
digiKilla New on Forum Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 2	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Hmmm.. i also had a hard disk failure (Partition & Corrupt Fat tables) and i re-created partitions thinking i had lost all my data. I even installed windows over it, then again i tried a lot of tools to recover data, but honestly nothing "really" worked. Then i used "Recover My Files", i know the name isnt very good . , but it did its job. I was able to get about 80% of my files. It took me a day to scan my 80GB , but it worked. I was able to get back all my avi's and jpgs and other types that i specified. I suggest u try recover my files and see if it does any good. PS: I would like to add that the program reads the file's header and then creates a virtual partition with all your files... So it should be able to get the files that are still intact with proper extension and everything.

03-11-2005	#16
slayerking CD Freaks Fartman Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Crypt of Kaos© Posts: 2,675	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD you guys realise you are answering to a post that is over a year old? __________________ there's always a way! cd protections are illegal! what's that smell! Join Us! Here at cdfreaks "Space. . . It seems to go on and on forever. But then you get to the end and a gorilla starts throwing barrels at you." Chat Quotes [4:44pm] * @taHkroW dubs SK the best king of the world. DO NOT message me asking about diablo 2 .mpq files you will not get a response.

04-11-2005	#17
Gurm CDFreaks Resident Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 1,940	Re: Recover data from formatted HDD Gosh Darnit, Elabro! Read the forum rules. No resurrecting year-old threads.