Thread: Help - Software for Data Recovery ?

My friend formatted a NON- OS partition. it consists mostly of movies, pictures and documents.

Please advice on which software (free or paid) is the best for such recovery.

And is it a good idea to recover the data directly from HDD or make a image of the partition and then recover data ?

thanks.

try eausus pls...

u mean EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional ?

the recoverability of the data depends upon the type of formatting done i.e. Quick Format OR Full format ............ this is the case because the Quick format options removes only the file table while the full format actually whipes the whole data thus making it harder to recover.

then there is another point which needs to be kept in mind while dealing with such a situation which is not to overwrite the drive with some other material ......... this can be done by keeping the drive unused and unaltered after the format .

As far as from my experience you can use simple recovery softwares(both Paid and free) available online as already mentioned by @mail2sc for recovering data after a quick format but if it is Full format then it is much harder to recover data using softwares ........ for then you may require to send it to a professional data recovery centre for recovering the data.

Pandora Recovery (Free)

can even retrieve sectors that have been overwritten by new data with some success

do not use multiple recovery software .... make a list and use the one u think which is most effective .....

the drive is disconnected n has not been used after the format. Not sure if it was full or quick format.


@shadow

what is the problem in using multiple s/w, if they are all in read only mode ?

Try recovermy file .I've tested the same. Recovered data(pictures, doc files) from formated pendrive and memory card

nothing wrong if they are in read only mode ..... but read only mode will not show you whether the file can be recovered completely successfully

I recommend R-Studio... It will recover most of ur data as well as some data since you purchased that HDD...

i recommend GetDataBack For NTFS / FAT, which recovered my 250GB of data, which was lost frm my WD My Passport bcause of Badsector

for some reason get data back is not working properly.

well let me put my experience here......i never seen any successful (50%) data recovery tool.....never....i tried many tools.....but never got anything that is impressive.....i heard that Feds (FBI) got tools which can recover data that is 5 years old....i dont know how do they do it

you can recover any data(at least that which was not deleted using,say,100 passes alternating pattern but even then some can be recovered!!) provided enough time & resources.anyway try all the good reviewed data recovery softwares one by one.as long as you are saving data on another hard disc it shouldn't matter if you try more than 1 software.

Originally Posted by Logik

well let me put my experience here......i never seen any successful (50%) data recovery tool.....never....i tried many tools.....but never got anything that is impressive.....i heard that Feds (FBI) got tools which can recover data that is 5 years old....i dont know how do they do it

In previous cases it didn't work for me, even when file got deleted a from an non-os drive (which means chances of getting overwritten are lean) and i tried the recovery software immediately.

those guys have access to expensive data recovery labs obviously. I happened to read, that previous data, can exist in the form of layers of magnetic fields. although i dunno how its possible to make sense of such data when even the loss of few bits can corrupt data.

Originally Posted by whitestar_999

you can recover any data(at least that which was not deleted using,say,100 passes alternating pattern but even then some can be recovered!!) provided enough time & resources.anyway try all the good reviewed data recovery softwares one by one.as long as you are saving data on another hard disc it shouldn't matter if you try more than 1 software.

thanks for the tip

btw most disk-wiping software claim to use US DoD method ( 7 passes) which can make it impossible to recover data even profesionally and new ones feature some 35 pass method too.

also its mentioned that a single or double pass can make a simple software recovery impossible.

not true newprouser.US DoD method is for at least 35 passes & recommended is over 100 & as i said before nothing is impossible in computer world.all it needs is time & resources.of course you won't get any professional help available in market to recover such deleted dat but then you also can't get nuclear materials in market too but those who know where to look for them can find it.same is the case with data recovery resources.

over 100 !! it takes a freaking long time just to wipe some 20 GB space, i'll prolly burn the HDD than to try that :lol: :lol:

thanks for all the tips guys

I would suggest using Stellar Phoenix Partition Recovery Software which creates Image when hard drive contains bad sectors and generates a Clone image of your hard drive.The software Provides Partition Recovery from Deleted or Formmated Partition and recovers lost or deleted emails from PST and DBX files.This software also Provides features like Raw Recovery, Drive Imaging and Drive Status,recovers almost all camera file formats and provides Save Scan option to save....Give a try

Choose the best software you think......, google it.