Data Recovery

[brownbox]

Ok, so there was an incident, and I lost all the data on my 10gb HDD. I accidentally formatted it, when I was re installing an IDE cable. So, I know there are payware programmes that will get the formatted files off your computer, but I was wondering is there any freeware ones?

Cheers
BB

[Mattnz]

http://www.recuva.com/

This may do the job, I'm not too sure though.

Matt

[brownbox]

Alright I fixed it with this
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

Got back about 90% of my junk!

CHeers

[Zöltuger]

i'm intrigued, how exactly do you accidently format a hard disk?

[Jimmy]

well that beats the recycle bin doesn't it haha

  i'm intrigued, how exactly do you accidently format a hard disk?

haha I was thinking the same, perhaps that would have been a good time to actuly throw the drive out Brownbox? give that poor PSU a rest, 10GB, not quite worth the extra power use is it?

Glad you managed to get all your stuff back, didn't even know those programs were freeware.

James

[Bingobob]

10Gb and XP or Vista? Only PCs I know still running a 10GB HD are win 98 machines.

[Charl]

I have a 66MHz Pentium laptop with a 40MB HDD.
In perfect working order, WIN 95 (upgraded foolishly from WIN 3.11 for workgroups, best operating system in the last 10 years)

[Jimmy]

10Gb and XP or Vista? Only PCs I know still running a 10GB HD are win 98 machines.

my parants pc is about 10GB, running XP, with a 600mhz cpu and 256mb or SD RAM

  I have a 66MHz Pentium laptop with a 40MB HDD.
In perfect working order, WIN 95 (upgraded foolishly from WIN 3.11 for workgroups, best operating system in the last 10 years)

We have 2 old systems in to atic, one with a 20mb h/drive, anothor with a 1gb I think, running win 3.11, and a laptop runing 3.11, if you can call it a laptop, about the same size as my desktop....nearly haha

[brownbox]

Heres my hdd setup

I have a 200GB divided into 2, with Windows on Partition 1 and all my programmes and games on Partition 2

On the 10GB, I had all my music and ripped movies B)

how exactly do you accidently format a hard disk?

Long story short:
I was changing one of those stupid fat grey IDE cables with one of those fancy round ones. I hooked it up in the same way I had the other one, and it said the 10GB hard disk wasnt intitialized when I got into Windows. So, I "initialized" it, and it wiped it clean. Even though, there wasnt actually anything wrong with the hdd, it just said it wasnt intitialized because I had the master slave the wrong way around

Ahhh good fun....

[Zöltuger]

heh, didn't know that was possible.

(upgraded foolishly from WIN 3.11 for workgroups, best operating system in the last 10 years)

um.... don't mean to be pedantic, but 3.11 was released in 1993, making it almost 14 years old. mind you, i preferred DOS for its gaming capabilities (and its command line interface)