I foolishly selected the wrong partition on my external hard drive to format and as a result all of my files seem to be lost. I have a Windows 7 Operating System.
The files are not what are of import to me, but instead I had pictures of my mother before she passed that I do not have anywhere else.
Please, please help. It would be of great comfort to me to recover these photos. They are all I have left.
Thank you for your kind assistance.
August 23rd, 2010 on 1:02 pm
Simple enough. Don’t worry as long as you haven’t save anything new to your hard drive, you can still recover your deleted stuff.
Here’s a free software : http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Here’s one for photo recovery: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
They are both top rated for free file recovery. Just download, install, follow recovery directions. Don’t forget, do not put new data in your formatted hard drive. It will overwrite and corrupt deleted file making recovery difficult if not impossible.
August 23rd, 2010 on 1:02 pm
The Answer is Yes. Deleting or formatting won’t make the data in your external hard drive erased permanently. These data are just not accessible at the short moment. If you deleted important data in your hard drive, they are not deleted as a matter of fact just the index entry or FAT or NTFS marked the data as free space for new data to save. If you formatted the hard drive, you simply rewrited or updated the FAT table or NTFS table which manage all the data storage process.
you need rely on professional file recovery tool to get them back. A popular one is Asoftech Recovery. This tool can deep scan the external hard drive and recover your lost files back without requiring extra skills. Here is the steps might be helpful to you:
1. Connect the external hard drive to computer. Under "My Computer", note the drive letter assigned to your external hard drive (usually G: or H:).
2. Download this program on your compute. here is the link: http://www.asoftech.com/apr/
3. Install and start the program. then click on settings on top right part of the program, check all of them and click OK.
4. select the drive where your lost files located, click Start. Now the scanning process will start to search the deleted files. After a while you will then get a list of recoverable files.
5. Press Recover to perform full recovery.
August 23rd, 2010 on 1:02 pm
Yes, you can try some data recovery software.
After you deleted the files, the data itself isn’t deleted; just the area where the deleted data was stored is now marked as free space for other new files to be written. So you can possibly recover your deleted files by some data recovery software.
But first remember do not put more files in the same place where your deleted files were stored, because once you put other files in it, this free space will be overwritten by others, which makes it difficult to retrieve the previous data.
Here is one recommended, which can not only recover photos, but documents, music, video, etc.
The Raw Recovery there can deeply scan your computer, and the trial version can let you preview the photos to see whether they are recoverable in the thumbnail
http://www.disk-utilities.com/data-recovery/