• Als Spam markieren
• Beitrag melden

• 
  Diese Gruppe Alles

• Archiv
• RSS-Feeds

• Kontakt
• Hilfe
• Impressum
• Datenschutz

Re: ACCIDENTAL FORMAT

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:43:38 -0700, "john"
<nospam@nospam.com> wrote:

>> However the drive that I am really looking for simply has a windows
>> directory in it and approx 114 GB of free space on it. I am terrified.
>> I think I lost all that precious data. I dont know exactly how it
>> happened but is there anything that can resolve this dilemma?
>> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>Every recovery attempt starts with making a copy of the drive in question.
>After you made a copy, you can experiment with it using software available
>on the web.
>

Actually, trying to copy it with typical consumer software
won't work, you'd only end up copying the existing files.
Typical recovery software requires a new drive of at least
the capacity of the files to be recovered, then that
software reads (Only) off the target drive then writes what
it finds to the new drive.

Success at that depends quite a lot on how much the windows
files have overwritten part or all of the old files.
Certainly there should be a lot of files intact still but
the fuller the drive was and more fragmented, the more
likely the windows files written will have corrupted all the
more old files.  Fortunately the windows files aren't
fragmented much if at all with so much free space remaining
so while they've definitely caused loss of data on the drive
that may mean only close to an equivalent amount of data as
those windows files took up.

Antworten