Data Loss..... Urgent help required please.

Aiadi

Hi all. Lost some data (mainly Docs) whilst managing partitions on my HD. Tried PC Inspector which seems to have picked up the lost files but I can not open them at all as they appear to be corrupted or something.

Is there an alternative good recovery program (not necessarily free) that would do a better? Did a google search on the best one but didn't get a straight answer.

albertross_2

Haven't we been here before? Or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?

What did you do?

Skyhigh

I like BadCopyPro, it's always done the job for me.

:!:

Aiadi

albertross wrote:

Haven't we been here before? Or am I getting you mixed up with someone else?

What did you do?

Albert no. and I need your recommendation on the best software out there. I have split a partition that had a massive free space using Paragon Partition manager into two but when the process ended both resulting partitions appeared as unformatted. HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLP

Aiadi

albertross wrote:

What did you do?

You are not gone, are you???

albertross_2

Undelete/Unformat software:

http://www.rescue-kit.de/eng/

http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete/
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html
http://www.free-av.com/down/windows/unerase_en_h.exe
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
http://www.partition-recovery.com/
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
http://www.data-recovery-software.ne...Recovery.shtml
http://www.fdrlab.com/software/tfu.html
http://www.softperfect.com/products/filerecovery/

http://www.finaldata.com/sub_products/products_1.asp
http://www.restorer2000.com/

http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

Difficult to advise where to start with your problem,,does it boot at all?

http://kb.paragon-software.com/paragon/templ/372.jsp

Aiadi

Many thanks. I'll have a go now.

Anything_for_nothing_2

Lost hundreds of irreplacable photos and word doc files following windows recovery, can I get them back usisng some software without paying a data recovery company £100- £250+ ?

GreenNotM

Anything_for_nothing wrote: »

Lost hundreds of irreplacable photos and word doc files following windows recovery, can I get them back usisng some software without paying a data recovery company £100- £250+ ?

AFN

"Windows Recovery" ? A restore point or a re-install from a recovery partition/XP CD ?

Either way Do NOT use the PC.
Depending on what you have done you may need to put the Hard Disk in another PC and use a partition recovery tool - if it was a recovery partition. If it was a restore point - look in the C:\Documents and Settings\ folder for you account name.

Download the tools given above to a usb key

nullogik

You could try Recuva from the same people that bring us the excellent CCleaner. Its in Beta, but seems to work perfectly well. Its Freeware so you might as well give it a try.

https://www.recuva.com

Anything_for_nothing_2

..... can't find any of the files... got to fear the worst... thanks anyway.