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| Thread ID: 135864 | 2013-12-20 06:03:00 | How to back up some files from a mistakenly formatted drive partition? | Murray15625 (17212) | PC World Chat |
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| 1363153 | 2013-12-20 06:03:00 | My computer hard drive on my laptop has been partitioned into four. However, recently, I have mistakenly formatted one of them and all the held images, videos, audios and other information are all gone. Can you help me get them back? There are still some files that have not been backed up well. Help me, please! | Murray15625 (17212) | ||
| 1363154 | 2013-12-20 06:20:00 | You can try "Recuva". Google it. I don't like your chances but you might be lucky so long as you have not put anything else in that parition since you formated it. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1363155 | 2013-12-20 06:40:00 | Make sure Recuva is not put onto the partition that you want to recover from as it might overwrite the files on there. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1363156 | 2013-12-24 03:37:00 | Step1. Stop using this formatted partition as well this drive in case that any new file would rewrite your original data. Step2. Download a data recovery program to your computer and start to retrieve all your lost data back. In fact, as I know, there are many similar formatted partition data recovery programs that can help you out, especially some efficient data recovery freeware like iCare Data Recovery Free, Recuva, TestDisk and more. I hope you can at least choose one to restore all your data successfully. Step3. Save and back up all the restored data on a different drive or places in case of data recovery failure. Note: You’d better never formatted a partition or hard drive without data backups next time. |
Gustave0035 (17213) | ||
| 1363157 | 2013-12-24 06:30:00 | Testdisk (www.cgsecurity.org) may be able to restore the previous partition layout, including all files IF you only did a "quick format" and have done no writes to the drive since. DO have somewhere else to write the files to. ANY writes to that partition WILL be permanently destroying data you want to recover. DON'T use windows with that drive attached - it has a bad habit of writing stuff to partitions without telling you (SysVolInfo, $RECYCLED etc ...). |
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