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Thread ID: 100644 2009-06-15 08:35:00 recovering files of a HDD BubbyCSG (15005) Press F1
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782466 2009-06-15 08:35:00 OK so in my haste to install an old Hdd in my new PC I Started to format one but then in a flash of brillance remembered that there were address's in emails that were stored on the hdd that I hadn't written down yet. So I quickly turned off the computer and turned it all back on again hoping that I could still see part of the drive and that they weren't lost forever. Now I can't see anything on the drive. The computer recognises that one is there, it's even assigned it a letter and all that. But no files inside it.

Is there anyway I can recover these files off the HDD or are they gone to the big recycle bin in the sky?
BubbyCSG (15005)
782467 2009-06-15 08:40:00 You can try recuva from the makers of Ccleaner, or try a linux CD boot from it and see if you can see any files that way gary67 (56)
782468 2009-06-15 08:43:00 Boot from a linux live CD and you may be able to see some data. Blam (54)
782469 2009-06-16 00:59:00 If you use a Linux live CD there's a whole bunch of tools you can use. There's an overview of different tools at help.ubuntu.com

Testdisk (en.wikipedia.org) can recover a partition you've deleted, that's probably all you need to use. You should be able to restore the partition and recover your files. I've done this once before myself. :blush:
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