Thomas
offlineMember
Hi friends,
I accidentally erased my D drive,(which was my life !).
Kindly asvice any software(preferably free)that can salvage it and have a back-up of the lost files.
It will be a great help !
Many thanks in advance.
Pls contact me at: [email address removed - see rules]
Thomas A
BuBBy
offlineAdministrator
Obviously your ability to restore files is going to depend on how thorough a job you did wiping everything, and what you have done since wiping the drive to attempt to get stuff back.
Lots of people "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" by tinkering and trying stuff out, without really knowing what they were doing. Writing to the drive or saving new files onto your D: drive will put any successful restore at risk.
So any more information on what you are running (XP, Vista etc), what file system your drive D: was running (NTFS, FAT32 etc) - very likely it isn't running ANY filesystem at the moment - if the drive has been erased.
Just remember don't start "testing" and "playing" with different tools until you know what you are doing. Some tools can dig the hole deeper.
How much data was on D: that you have lost (in GB's) do you have that much free space on another drive in your PC?
Thomas
offlineMember
Thanx Bubby,
You know it.
My commonsense said dont touch a girl at the "wrong" periods and I just obeyed and rescued by a friend with some of his software, got almost all files.
It was about 15 GB.
In fact I was waiting for somebodys instruction " what to do" from GOATD till then.
You responded.
Thanks a lot.
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!!!!
Thomas
RunesageMagik
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Did you actually erase a drive or partition, or did you simply delete the identifiable link to it? Delete doesn't necessarily mean irrevocably "deleted". Usually, things aren't actually DELETED/ERASED/Made Unrecoverable for quite a while. If you haven't done anything else that might overwrite the data on the harddrive, it should still be there.
You could try downloading this free program and install it (NOT TO YOUR D: DRIVE!) and see how many of your previously deleted files may still be sitting there. You might be shocked how much is still there. This is the premise behind all those crime tv scripts that rely on a geek "recovering" deleted material.
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