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Answer» Hello I have a few problems one problem is more specific than the other but related to recovering data So what you cant help me out here? my data is gone for good I havent even reformatted 7 times which is the usual time the data whipes itself out.Huh?For some reason this reminds me of a person I know who had a older Mac (system 7). I was using it for one reason or another, and emptied the trash because it was nearly 50% of the drive. THe guy comes back, and asks me "what did you do" and I said... "well, not much... I emptied the trash." "NOOO!" "What? what's wrong?" "that's where I keep my documents!" Apparently, this person thought that storing things in the trash can would cause that space to be magically freed. basically, you could put an infinite number of files into it of any size. An analogous situation also occured with SOMEBODY using DOS 6 and Delete Sentry, which copied deleted files to a hidden folder. I foolishly purged the data for one reason or another (I think I did something that purged automatically). And of course this other guy also stored his important data in the hidden folder. Another case was even worse, and far more similar to the case we have here in this thread. The person would literally delete the files, and then use a recovery program to recovery them when needed. Apparently this followed the same logic above- that is, the deleted files didn't use up space, so it was better this way. Remembering the first letter of the filename was a small price to pay. Anyway, when he installed windows 95, for some reason all of the files were no longer recoverable, them being overwritten was a likely cause. Quote from: dante10k on March 02, 2010, 04:04:01 PM So what you cant help me out here? my data is gone for good I havent even reformatted 7 times which is the usual time the data whipes itself out. Oh, I'm sure the data is recoverable. If you have a spare 1500$ for a forensics team. Quote from: BC_Programmer on March 02, 2010, 06:39:54 PM Oh, I'm sure the data is recoverable. Sometimes the downloadable HDD recovery programs can get certain recognizable file types back. The free ones usually have restrictions that limit the ability to recover catastrophic losses like this. They do invite you to pay for the full version if your case needs it. Quote from: jkolak on March 03, 2010, 01:24:48 AM Sometimes the downloadable HDD recovery programs can get certain recognizable file types back. The free ones usually have restrictions that limit the ability to recover catastrophic losses like this. They do invite you to pay for the full version if your case needs it. After three formats and a change of file system, there is no PUBLICLY "tool" that you can use that can recover the data. the only type of tool that can be used would be one that is specially designed to read data slightly off track, in the hopes of finding the remnants of older data. Guess who has these types of apps? Expert Data Recovery. Recuva and similar publicly available tools- including "commercial" data recovery software doesn't come CLOSE to the meticulousness of the in-house (read: not publicly available, free or otherwise) applications and tools used by them. Now, Recuva would work fine if you only reformatted once- and then tried to recover right away, but formatting three times, and then expecting to recover data after 3 months of use is nothing short of completely ludicrous. |
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