Help! Recover Lost Data During Half a format

dannaswolcott · 04-01-2008, 10:33 PM

When i ran compaq recovery, it started to recover on my DATA hard drive not the main hard drive. I was able to stop the recovery before it was able to format the hard drive. But now the hard drive is hidden, and it was split up in to 2 partitions. Half the drive (90%) of the drive remained unformated but 10% of the drive has become formated. I need a program to beable to recover the lost data on that hard drive. I cant access the hard drive in windows beacuse it says its unparitiond when you go in to manage under my computer. Long story short, If you know any program or any way to help me recover this lost data please post! Thanks in advance!

PC eye · 04-03-2008, 08:54 AM

There are a few retail programs like Active Undelete and Ontrack Recovery for scanning for file fragments to see what can be recovered. Recover My Files is a shareware with a trial period as well as found at http://www.download.com/Recover-My-F...dlpid=10823572

tgx874sah · 04-03-2008, 12:17 PM

Hi, i've been in this situation, Ontrack easy Recovery can do the job

PC eye · 04-03-2008, 11:53 PM

Ontrack is the most often used program while Active Undelete is also a recommended software. One thing I do regularly at this time having run into a situation like that some years back where some files were lost is simply back things up immediately to another folder, partition, drive in case some unexpected problem comes up. That can save on a few headaches later.

04-01-2008, 10:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
dannaswolcott Gold Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: world of my own Age: 17 Posts: 342	Help! Recover Lost Data During Half a format When i ran compaq recovery, it started to recover on my DATA hard drive not the main hard drive. I was able to stop the recovery before it was able to format the hard drive. But now the hard drive is hidden, and it was split up in to 2 partitions. Half the drive (90%) of the drive remained unformated but 10% of the drive has become formated. I need a program to beable to recover the lost data on that hard drive. I cant access the hard drive in windows beacuse it says its unparitiond when you go in to manage under my computer. Long story short, If you know any program or any way to help me recover this lost data please post! Thanks in advance! __________________ Custom Built, Intel Pentium Dual Core 2ghz OC to 2.60ghz, 320gb HD, Win VISTA & XP, 500W PSU, 512mb Video Card DVD-RW (Aug 08)Toshiba Satellite A135-S7406 Laptop, Celeron M 1.73ghz, 2GB DDR2 Ram, 80GB Hard Drive, DVD-RW, Windows VISTA(Dec 17th 2007) Compaq Desktop Celeron D 3.20ghz, Windows XP Pro, 120gb SATA Hard Drive, 100 GB IDE Hard Drive, 200gb SATA Hard Drive, DVD-RW DL, DVD-ROM, 1.5GB DDR Memory (Bought in Spt 2006) Road Runner,Wireless N My Home Page: www.wolcottscomputersupport.net

04-03-2008, 08:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,512	There are a few retail programs like Active Undelete and Ontrack Recovery for scanning for file fragments to see what can be recovered. Recover My Files is a shareware with a trial period as well as found at http://www.download.com/Recover-My-F...dlpid=10823572 __________________ What The Data Miners Are Digging Up About You http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Tec...6355541&page=1 Making an Old Brain Young http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Hea...6371136&page=1

04-03-2008, 12:17 PM	#3 (permalink)
tgx874sah New Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 1	Hi, i've been in this situation, Ontrack easy Recovery can do the job __________________ Voip Review

04-03-2008, 11:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
PC eye Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Inside a pc Posts: 20,512	Ontrack is the most often used program while Active Undelete is also a recommended software. One thing I do regularly at this time having run into a situation like that some years back where some files were lost is simply back things up immediately to another folder, partition, drive in case some unexpected problem comes up. That can save on a few headaches later. __________________ What The Data Miners Are Digging Up About You http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Tec...6355541&page=1 Making an Old Brain Young http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Hea...6371136&page=1

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