Help!! deleted recovery files

tlise

Donnie wrote: »

You' are actually prompted to do it every time you open the laptop, until you disable the prompt, because the discs will always be more important. Especially in the case of hard drive failure.

I must have disabled it then **shamefaced** My old one used to do that a lot but it came with the disks so it got annoying, so I probably just did it automatically.
Its a learning curve when you do something stupid anyway lol.

danthemoneysavingman

I'm under the impression you deleted a data drive rather than needing to recover, as you say the laptop still works. Do I win £10?

Go with Hammyman's suggestion. Your OH should know what data was on there that he needs back.

Please let us know if it's data files or actual programs that have been wiped.
Ta

marleyboy

Theres a FREE download called iUnformat that recovers all your files here http://www.newfreedownloads.com/Windows-Utilities/File-Management/iUnformat.html

Donnie

marleyboy wrote: »

Theres a ...

This is not free. Probably best to delete your post.

marleyboy

Of course its free, hence the link "download FREE trial" although there are limitations for the free trial.

Theres quite a list available http://www.newfreedownloads.com/find/unformat.html

You will find that all of them have a trial or limitation unless buying the software, but you will still be able to use them up until the trial runs out, assuming the OP will only need run the software once and not regularly accidentally format the drive, there is no need to invest in buying the full version.

tlise

danthemoneysavingman wrote: »

I'm under the impression you deleted a data drive rather than needing to recover, as you say the laptop still works. Do I win £10?

Go with Hammyman's suggestion. Your OH should know what data was on there that he needs back.

Please let us know if it's data files or actual programs that have been wiped.
Ta

It was the actual data files I deleted not the drive. The drive was there but empty.

Its the files that Toshiba use if I need to run the recovery programme. I don't need to at the moment, but I don't like not having back up in case I do.....its not my laptop, so it will be more of a problem if it stops working.
Hubby knows absolutely nothing about computers other than how to turn it on and use browsers so its really annoying to have done something so basically stupid.

I used a suggestion I was given and have run an imaging programme....If all else fails and that doesn't work then I will have to either buy a new disk from Toshiba, or hopefully in the long and distant future, upgrade.

Thanks for all the help guys

tlise

marleyboy wrote: »

Of course its free, hence the link "download FREE trial" although there are limitations for the free trial.

Theres quite a list available http://www.newfreedownloads.com/find/unformat.html

You will find that all of them have a trial or limitation unless buying the software, but you will still be able to use them up until the trial runs out, assuming the OP will only need run the software once and not regularly accidentally format the drive, there is no need to invest in buying the full version.

Sorry but Laughed a lot at that . I was stupid but not that stupid......well, maybe I should never say never cos normally I always check which disk I am formatting before I do it and the one time I can actually blame the kids, nobody believes me *sobs*

Donnie

marleyboy wrote: »

Of course its free, hence the link "download FREE trial" although there are limitations for the free trial.

Theres quite a list available http://www.newfreedownloads.com/find/unformat.html

You will find that all of them have a trial or limitation unless buying the software, but you will still be able to use them up until the trial runs out, assuming the OP will only need run the software once and not regularly accidentally format the drive, there is no need to invest in buying the full version.

I think I gave you the option to retract, but you didn't want to take it.

What is the limitation of the trial version?

With the trial version, you can scan formatted or corrupted hard disks, search the deleted files as well as preview them.

You will not be able to use the restore data function until you enter a registration key. Software registration works on the fly without interrupting what was done before. That means you don't need to rescan the disk again, just enter the key and continue the data recovery process

Since there are genuinely FREE options available, such as Test Disk, I see no need for you to advertise a product for which you have no experience. Especially when there is cost involved.