How Do I Rescue Data from a Deleted Partition Drive???

[dr150]

I have data that I'm trying to rescue off of a hard drive where I deleted its primary partition and did a reformat of about 7%, before canceling the reformat.


Is there any forensic software that will allow me to delve into the hard drive and rescue any remaining data that may be left???

Would taking it to the Geek Squad at Best Buy be an option of rescuing the data?


Please advise....

 

[IonBlade]

I've had a good track record in the past with GetDataBack NTFS (or FAT, if the partition was FAT). Trial version download page. The app costs ~70 or 80 bucks, iirc, but the demo will let you see which files it would be able to recover should you choose to pick it up.

In order to prevent any further damage, set the drive you overwrote up as a slave and install a copy of Windows to a different drive, set GetDataBack up on the new drive, and then run GetDataBack against the drive you formatted.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea just use software recovery solutions.
best buy and geek squad know about as much as you do...cept they charge like they are experts.

 

[Chalky]

I've had the same problem when a hard drive failed, eventually I came across this website www.quetek.com, did a free scan and after initially losing over 2000 files, I managed to recover all but 6. Cost was about £25.00 GBP.

Well worth the money IMHO

Good luck

 

[lxskllr]

PCInspector has worked for me, and is free, as is Avira UnErase Personal which I have also used.

 

[oog]

you can mount it on a linux box, use dd to copy the entire drive, set the original drive aside, then work on the image to recover what you can.

 

[dennilfloss]

If you just want the data files, use this.

http://www.easeus.com/

You can check the comments when it was free on GOTD.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/data-recovery-wizard/