| Author | Message | ||
     kenyoroj bumburiao |
somebody formated my hard disk and installed win 98 and lost all my data please is there a way i can recove the lost data | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
Files that have not been overwritten in the course of the Windows 98 installations might be recoverable. I recommend you open the logical drive in Davory and try File Recovery by Name and by Type. You could also try to locate and recover files manually (with WinHex only). | ||
| Adam S. |
I accidentally formatted the wrong disk and lost my sociology paper is there any chance for recovery of it? I have tried numerous downloadable recovery systems and nothing seems to be working. Can you think of anything else I can do? | ||
| Jens Kirschner (Admin3) |
There are several ways of recovering your paper, all of them depending on your paper not having been overwritten yet. Try using Davory or WinHex to attempt a "File Recovery by Type", where you would select "MS Office (xls or doc...)" as the type of file to recover, assuming that you have used Word for your sociology paper. You might also try "File Recovery by Name" IF you formatted the disk with the same file system (FAT32, NTFS) it had before. In that case, search for the file's name as it was and if you're not really sure, simply search for something like "soc*.doc" or whatever part you remember for sure. If all that fails you, there is a less comfortable but nevertheless hopeful solution. If you know something that definitely was part of your text (like "Sociology" or "cultural differences between East and West") you could use WinHex's Text Search method to search the whole drive for these text fragments so you could this way at least recover the written text as such, though not the file as a whole. You'd probably have some formatting to do, but at least your text would not be lost. By the way: Recovering files in WinHex and Davory as a trial version (downloadable from the links above) is only possible up to 200KB. So, if your paper was bigger than this, you'd have to purchase the full version to recover your file, but the trial versions would at least help you find out if you could recover the file at all: If they won't even find it, the full version won't either. Hope, that helped! | ||
| Jose Hernandez |
I have a toshiba A 30 and the windows XP instalation crashed. I don't want to loose all my files and data, how can I create an image of my files and re install windows? thanks | ||
| Pedro Kami |
A NTFS partion in XP was renamed as "Local Disk" and said to be RAW and in need of a format. Data is still ok. Is there any way to copy the files? | ||
| Jens Kirschner (Admin3) |
Open that partition in WinHex and see what happens: If WinHex shows drive contents, simply copy them to another location (using the "Recover/Copy" command from the context menu). If WinHex does not recognize the partition as being NTFS, then some of the most central data at least in parts is not ok. But that still might mean you could get your files back using "File Recovery by Type" - in case your data is largely of certain recognizable types. Search the forum on data recovery. | ||
| david lee |
I use a sony vaio model PCG-FRV37 and it crashed earlier today and my only option was to use the vaio recovery agent to restore the laptop to its original factory settings (formatting the hard drive). Needless to say, I lost all of my files in the process, I tried using winhex to find my msword files by name with "*.doc" but it couldn't find anything, neither could davory, does this mean that my papers are irrecoverable? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
If "[x] Particularly thorough search" was enabled and if File Recovery by Type also does not find any MS Office files, then as far as I can tell your papers cannot be recovered any more, unfortunately. | ||
| Terry Greenwood (Greenwood) |
Have you checked the size of the partition created by the recovery agent compared to the size of the hard disk? If the recovery agent creates a partition that is less than the full size of the hard disk, your files may still be there but in another partition or the unused part of the hard disk. | ||
| Terry Greenwood (Greenwood) |
p.s. That's assuming you opened the logical disk then searched, open the physical disk then try file recovery. | ||
| George Draper (Georgeld) |
Please advise how I can recover data files from an NTFS hard drive that is accessable from winhwx 10.45 as a physical drive only. It does not appear as a logical drive and, of course, will not boot. I can access the hard drive data with winhex 10.45 but have not been able to recover any files since it appears the drive must be accessable as a logical drive. A second partition on the drive is accessable as a logical drive but does not contain the data I need. Must I upgrade to the latest version to accomplish data recovery on a physical drive? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
In later Windows versions, the Access button in the window that represents the physical disk should allow you to open the NTFS partition in question. Please try the latest evaluation version of WinHex to see if that helps in your situation. | ||
| George Draper (Georgeld) |
Mr. Fleischmann's advice was followed. I download Winhex 12.6 and, using the evaluation version, learned that I would be able to accomplish my tasks. I purchased winhex version 12.6 online and was at work within minutes. Mr. Fleischmann was even available on this weekend to respond immediately to a mundanwe question I had. The product is superb as is technical assitance. Incidentally, I had originally purchased version 10.44 and did not update since my requirements were satisfied with 10.44 Thanks Stefon. | ||
| Shakir Hossain (Shakir_Bd) |
Please help me!! I format my hard drive and I lost my some important excel files. please help me how to recovery formatted files without any cost. becs my have not enugh money to bye software....!! please help | ||
| ZhangYu (Sjhf) |
I can help you,but My Englist is poor. You can contact me through my MSN:sjhf@hotmail.com | ||
| Peter Holtan (Peterholtan) |
Hi, I recently purchased a Netgear SC101 Storage Central. It's a device in which you install your own IDE hard drive and connect it to your network to create network storage. It's a pretty cool device. But it uses a propriatary file system and it repartitioned and formatted my hard drive without promting me and giving me an option to quit. I lost 80 gigs of music, videos, photos, and work. Fortunatly the format was quick and the files are still on the drive. I haven't used a sector editor in many many years and NTFS looks a whole lot different than what I'm used to. A technique I used in the past was to search the drive for clusters containing directory structures. Then I mannualy create new directories in the root and set the appropriate bytes so that they pointed to the clusters that I found to contain directories. This would allow me to view that sub-directory and copy all the files to a new drive. The problem that I am having with NTFS is that I can't seem to figure which bytes point to the clusters. Any advice on how to navigate NTFS would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Peter Holtan | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) |
In NTFS those file system data structures are indeed different and more complex. The next file system classes we offer will be in Dallas and Chicago in January (please see here for details). I can think of two ways how you could likely recover the files with WinHex automatically: 1) Tools | Disk Tools | File Recovery by Type Drawback: assumes the files are not fragmented 2) You repartition and reformat the hard disk in exactly the same way as before. Then apply Tools | Disk Tools | File Recovery by Name with [x] thorough file system data structure search enabled. So that you are able to revert to the current state of the hard disk in case anything goes wrong, you would best make an image of that disk before. | ||
| PeterJL@foxfield.plus.com Username: peterjl Registered: N/A |
I have used data recovery by type for the first time to try to recover MS Office files on disk with a corrupted directory. The program clunked away for a while and produced over 3,000 files. Many of the Word xxx.doc files were full of gibberish but most of the Excel files xxx.xls were there as originally saved. Why were there so many "rubbish" files found? Are these likely to be files from a fragmented disk? | ||
| Stefan Fleischmann Username: admin Registered: 1-2001 |
Could be due to frequent copy/save/delete operations, resulting in many deleted incomplete fragments of MS Office files. | ||
| Ansu Suseelan Username: ansuas Registered: N/A |
Hi, My Hard Disk for PCG-FRV37 crashed and was not booting. I had to replace the drive and put a new one. I had lot of my back-up files in Drive-D. IS any one wnow of a mechanish to read the data from Drive-D. I haven't over written the data or installed new OS on this old drive yet. | ||
| Ansu Suseelan Username: ansuas Registered: N/A |
Hi, My Hard Disk for PCG-FRV37 crashed and was not booting. I had to replace the drive and put a new one. I had lot of my back-up files in Drive-D. IS any one wnow of a mechanish to read the data from Drive-D. I haven't over written the data or installed new OS on this old drive yet. | ||
| John Ahearne Username: jahearne Registered: N/A |
Yes, you should be able to attach your old drive to another port or slave it if it's an PATA drive. If the volume isn't badly corrupted you should be able to see all your old data once you boot into the new operating system. It maybe a differnt drive letter such as E or F. | ||
| Tech Tiger Username: techtiger4 Registered: N/A |
you can recover using data recovery software. try googling and you will find lots of them. |