Help! I need to recover a file from a formatted partition . :(

David164v8 · 17 Apr 2011 at 20:48

I don't think this is possible but thought it was worth asking. My Windows 7 was acting up today so I decided to do a fresh install, I formatted my /C:/ drive and installed Windows 7 and it was all good until I went to play Minecraft and remembered that I deleted my server files that contained the map. So I'm wondering if there is any possible way to recover it

UnworthyBean · 17 Apr 2011 at 20:51

Chances are they'll be overwritten and in that case, Nothing will get them back.

You can give recuva a go in the hopes that they haven't been overwritten though.

David164v8 · 17 Apr 2011 at 20:56

UnworthyBean said:
Chances are they'll be overwritten and in that case, Nothing will get them back.

You can give recuva a go in the hopes that they haven't been overwritten though.

Alright thanks.

Destination · 17 Apr 2011 at 21:41

How much stuff have you added to the drive

Try running recurva and see what it might locate

kiel367 · 18 Apr 2011 at 13:05

the best way to do this is to remove the drive put an os on another drive, and use something like getback data ntfs, you will never find anything if you are running the software on the same drive you are recovering

Raumarik · 18 Apr 2011 at 13:18

pikey367 said:
the best way to do this is to remove the drive put an os on another drive, and use something like getback data ntfs, you will never find anything if you are running the software on the same drive you are recovering

Never heard of that one before, it's less risky to use it as a non-OS slave but if he's not actively using the OS then the chances of over writing the same sectors as the file he's looking for at tiny. He's already formatted and install an OS, statistically speaking I doubt he's going to be adding much more risk by simply running Recurva on the same drive as he's been advised to by Hikari Kisugi

moss · 18 Apr 2011 at 13:40

I managed to recover lots of data (100's gb) from a twice formatted driving using Getback data NTFS and RecoverMyFiles. Fortunately, i hadn't wrote any other data to the drive though.

mmj_uk · 18 Apr 2011 at 13:43

If the drive is really massive then chances are the OS files haven't overwritten the files you're after, although I'm not sure how successful file recovery software generally is.

Do what pikey367 says and remove the drive immediately to prevent anything more being written, then use another OS drive to attempt a recovery on it.

encephalopathy · 18 Apr 2011 at 19:15

+1 for getdatabackNTFS
great bit of software. hopefully you haven't overwritten the files you need

Lethagized · 19 Apr 2011 at 12:56

encephalopathy said:
+1 for getdatabackNTFS
great bit of software. hopefully you haven't overwritten the files you need

^^This^^

Getdataback for NTFS has recovered lots of stuff for me in the past.

KatanaDV20 · 19 Apr 2011 at 23:11

Dude - use this...it works really well. A mate of mine accidentally (dont ask) enabled the factory reset on her laptop and it blitzed everything and then did a format. This program got back all her uni documents & some important job applications...intact - from the formatted HD.

Free and powerful data recovery software to recover 1 GB data free of charge.

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

kiel367 · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:10

Halfmad said:
Never heard of that one before, it's less risky to use it as a non-OS slave but if he's not actively using the OS then the chances of over writing the same sectors as the file he's looking for at tiny. He's already formatted and install an OS, statistically speaking I doubt he's going to be adding much more risk by simply running Recurva on the same drive as he's been advised to by Hikari Kisugi

it has nothing to do with risk, its the fact that he is using the drive to run his o/s, if he wants to recover data, from say, a part of the drive where the files for windows has been placed on the new install, how is he supposed to recover files from something thats being used for a major system use for the new o/s, it wouldnt work, and any recovery that claims to do this is garbage, this isnt me attacking what you said, just trying to get the point across about how data recoveries actually work, when you install getback it actually warns you not to install and run the program on the drive you are trying to recover from, iv actually recovered data from like...3 previous installs back, and the customer thought that photo's contained in this were lost forever, not the case, if it has only been quick formatted you have more chance of recovering any data lost.