I just had a HDD disaster where I lost a lot of files and have been looking into Data recovery software, I am curious to see if anyone has tried any software like this and if they had any luck?

I came across a program called RecoverMyFiles I think I will try out... it claims it can even recover data from a HDD that was formatted by accident even after a new OS install has been done?!?! Sounds too good to be true, but if it can work even for a few files I lost, that would be pretty sweet.

hello, scorpios

we use this at my job.

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Hey Scorpios,

Well, to be honest, it is too good to be true. It is not possible to recover a HDD in it's entirity after you have installed another operating system over it. After a HDD and been formatted or repartitioned, the data is still there, but a new File Allocation Table (containing the information of where exactly your files are on the disk) is created. Once you start using that disk again, such as installing a new operating system, the information is being overwritten. Providing the OS is all you have installed so far, the possibility of restoring your other files are quite good.

This is a subject which has been discussed on PCHF many times, for example: http://www.pchelpforum.com/general-s...xperience.html

EDIT: Marked as Answered.

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