Help!! deleted recovery files

tlise

I was being pestered by children while on hubbys pc and accidently clicked format drive e thinking it was my flash disk but it was his files :'( The partition is still there, I have tried recovering the files but every programme I tried wants too much money, then I started using Recuve and it seemed to find them all but took hours, and then I clicked the wrong thing (habit forming there) and now have to redo it as it was trying to restore everything and didnt have enough room instead of just the drive e files.
he hasnt got a disk (toshiba laptop didnt come with it) I didnt make a back up disk, (yes I know that now lol) what can I do? cant afford a recovery disk so all help would be welcome as I am heavily in trouble for doing it. Had my cd drive not started not burning to disks I wouldnt have had to be on his, but thats another story. ideas anyone please? **begs on knees**

fwor

You're going to have to slow down a bit and say more precisely what's going wrong.

Does his PC still boot up Ok?

Is Recuva finding the files but saying that there is not enough disk space to recover them?

Is there any reason why you cannot just re-run Recuva on the E drive only and choose the correct option this time? Ok, it may take a long time, but that seems to be the best option, if available.

Donnie

Model number of laptop?

dragon934

Cant remember but is recuva the one that restores individual files or a whole partition, because its the deleted partition recovery you want, like the one in Hiren's boot disc. I think it only recovers them after a quick format though and not a thorough one. Its usually a lot quicker and reliable though.
And just incase the OP isn't aware, DO NOT write anything to your deleted partition in the meantime, or that will really complicate things

Hammyman

You need Testdisk.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Paul_T_3

I think I would start by going out and buying a nice External Hard drive. You are going to need it now that you have learnt the hard way about backups.
Never used Recuve as have always used Easy Recovery. Still have my old disk of Easy R so if recuve does not do the job just PM me with a work address so I can send the disk

tlise

sorry was on Holiday lol. None of it worked so tried tune up, but that is finding too many files, not got a clue what I am looking for and most say unknown folder so not keen on restoring all for obvious reasons.
Toshiba helpfully said if I couldn't use the recovery option, then use the boot up disk, ha! slight problem there which I had already told them lol.
I forgot to say the laptop IS still working. I don't need the recovery files at this time, its a just in case safety net.
I did try running the programme on drive e but it wasn't finding anything at all. If I do something I like to do it thoroughly *sighs* which didn't help with a worried husband breathing down my neck cos he thought I had wrecked his laptop.

Test disk looks good, but I'm not doing anything without help at this point as it looks complicated. don't want to make things worse.

I did read somewhere, and thought I had bookmarked it, but it seems to have vanished, where someone said if you delete your files, create a new snapshot. Would that work? I assume I could save that to the empty drive e. If so, can someone help me with that? Assuming I can't find the old files which is looking unlikely.

I am so out of my league now its worrying me. Im not a novice but anything involved in windows programmes itself and never had to do this before, my Dell came with disks already. His is a Toshiba laptop L300D. Thanks for all suggestions so far.

Donnie

tlise wrote: »

sorry was on Holiday lol. None of it worked so tried tune up, but that is finding too many files, not got a clue what I am looking for and most say unknown folder so not keen on restoring all for obvious reasons.
Toshiba helpfully said if I couldn't use the recovery option, then use the boot up disk, ha! slight problem there which I had already told them lol.
I forgot to say the laptop IS still working. I don't need the recovery files at this time, its a just in case safety net.
I did try running the programme on drive e but it wasn't finding anything at all. If I do something I like to do it thoroughly *sighs* which didn't help with a worried husband breathing down my neck cos he thought I had wrecked his laptop.

Test disk looks good, but I'm not doing anything without help at this point as it looks complicated. don't want to make things worse.

I did read somewhere, and thought I had bookmarked it, but it seems to have vanished, where someone said if you delete your files, create a new snapshot. Would that work? I assume I could save that to the empty drive e. If so, can someone help me with that? Assuming I can't find the old files which is looking unlikely.

I am so out of my league now its worrying me. Im not a novice but anything involved in windows programmes itself and never had to do this before, my Dell came with disks already. His is a Toshiba laptop L300D. Thanks for all suggestions so far.

Full model number if you please.

tlise

TOSHIBA Satellite L300D

Thats all it said, is there something else I am looking for?

gaming_guy

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Donnie

tlise wrote: »

TOSHIBA Satellite L300D

Thats all it said, is there something else I am looking for?

All it said where? Please take another look. If that's too difficult for you, you can send me the serial number via PM. If that still bowls you over, try Model: PS***