BEST DATA RECOVERY TOOL!

OK, So my fiance wanted me to reformat her harddrive for her and reinstall windows. and after getting 2% into the reformattign process she realized she forgot to backup her pictures, i quickly pulled the plug and now have her drive in my computer as a slave drive. i have ran ONTRACK data recovery and got alot of her pictures back. is there any other programs that can recover files on drives that have been reformated or paratialy formated and are in just a raw unreadable form. i want to run as many differant programs as i can to try to get these pictures back for my fiance, thanks!

from what i've used (lots) they all generally suck and don't recover even just-deleted stuff. but i think file scavenger ended up being sorta useful. i'd try it.

I used Recover My Files[=http//www.recovermyfiles.com/]Recover My Files and it did the job just fine. I had my anime, pictures and some other goodies I lost when my hd tweaked out.

[quoteab1a882e51="CougarKid"]I used Recover My Files[=http//www.recovermyfiles.com/]Recover My Files and it did the job just fine. I had my anime, pictures and some other goodies I lost when my hd tweaked out.[/quoteab1a882e51]

I THINK I used this when I deleted my wifes pictures by mistake. I ran this program and It recovered shit from like the year 2000, it was crazy. That drive was formated quit a few times too. Like I said, I THINK this was the program I used, if it is then it's a killer app.

Probably was, it's one of the first things to pop up on Google.

bump, anyone have anything new? I have a HDD here at work and it's in bad shape and need to recover files, programs in here have not really been successful yet.

From what I've heard, the format is not complete unless it hits 100%.

[quotef14f5d033f="TFOAF"]From what I've heard, the format is not complete unless it hits 100%.[/quotef14f5d033f]

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http//www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

I used testdisk when my laptop's hard drive was [b6f3ce7b3c4]really[/b6f3ce7b3c4] messed up (deleted partition tables). It works.

[quotedb2ded8fce="TFOAF"]From what I've heard, the format is not complete unless it hits 100%.[/quotedb2ded8fce]
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A format doesn't actually wipe data, whether it's completed or not, that's why data is recoverable beyond a format. All it does is wipe and restructure the filesystem tables. Even an fdisk doesn't wipe partitions, it just wipes the partition tables. In either case, the drive's data is still entirely intact and available to recovery software that knows who to access it via low-level drive calls.

Which is why you should never consider a drive "wiped" when you format it or fdisk it. If you're ebaying or giving away an old HDD and don't want your banking info, credit card lists, or vintage 1930's pr0n collection to be recovered by someone, you best run a wipe over the entire drive first.

[quote31b2ab9659="dmorris68"][quote31b2ab9659="TFOAF"]From what I've heard, the format is not complete unless it hits 100%.[/quote31b2ab9659]
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A format doesn't actually wipe data, whether it's completed or not, that's why data is recoverable beyond a format. All it does is wipe and restructure the filesystem tables. Even an fdisk doesn't wipe partitions, it just wipes the partition tables. In either case, the drive's data is still entirely intact and available to recovery software that knows who to access it via low-level drive calls.

Which is why you should never consider a drive "wiped" when you format it or fdisk it. If you're ebaying or giving away an old HDD and don't want your banking info, credit card lists, or vintage 1930's pr0n collection to be recovered by someone, you best run a wipe over the entire drive first.[/quote31b2ab9659]

Yeah when we sent computers back we run a program called Derik's boot and nuke, it kills the drive basically, lol

[quoteabe2c21e01="Daggoth"]http//www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

I used testdisk when my laptop's hard drive was [babe2c21e01]really[/babe2c21e01] messed up (deleted partition tables). It works.[/quoteabe2c21e01]

So far so good, the program is doing a good job 8) 8)

Thanks again and the best part is it's free

[quote02b443889c="manOFice"]Yeah when we sent computers back we run a program called Derik's boot and nuke, it kills the drive basically, lol[/quote02b443889c]
Yeah I've used DBAN for years, and carry the bootable CD around in my kit. I also use a free Windows tool called Eraser that will do the same (obviously not to your Windows partition), but more conveniently, will securely wipe only free space on the drive, so anything you've ever deleted is wiped.

Also, don't fall for the hype about DoD quality wiping, spending hours running several passes of alternating patterns. MaxPC recently did a test where they ran a single pass of 0's over a drive using DBAN, then sent the drive to one of those expensive data recovery specialists. They couldn't recover anything useful. So a single pass of 0's will be much quicker and secure enough for anything short of some black-ops NSA technology.

just an update

GetDataBack for NTFS

is the program that ended up working the best, we bought it for 80 bucks and was able to recover all her files