I need big help now

[sabr474854]

So , my c drive was dead and the only left is my secondry hdd the d drive.
And i have installed new c drive , and i have installed new windows 7.
After that i have lost all files including games , videos , pictures and audios on my d drive.
How i can recover them again? Because they are the last files from my d drive
I tries the back up and nothing works.

 

[Saga Lout]

Bad news, I'm afraid.

Your D:\ drive wasn't a second hard disk but only a partition on the same disk as C:\. The new installation will have formatted the entire drive and wrote the new system on to the cleaned disk.

I'm sorry to have to say you have no chance of any data recovery in those circumstances.

 

[hellraiser06]

May I ask if you did the windows installation on a new disk or the old one? Also, did you do a clean install (which formats the OS partition) or you did an upgrade to existing windows on the same hard drive?

Not all is lost. There are some companies that rebuild data from wiped out hard drives. For data to truly deleted from any hard drive, there should be a deletion of data followed by over writes on the disk. Since, the over writes have not happened, you still have chances to recover data. You should now search for such companies in your area. Data recovery is a very difficult process and the recovery depends on how severe the damage is.

Also, first please check by going into windows disk management if that hard drive is recognized by the OS. There may be a situation in which windows re installation has not wiped out the hard drive but is unable to recognize it. Check if it shows up. If yes, assign a drive letter to it. Then you will be able to browse it as usual from windows explorer. If you are lucky, your data might still be there.

If not, then I recommend disconnecting the drive physically immediately to prevent windows from trying to over write it with something and contacting a data recovery company. Good luck!

 

[sabr474854]

Bad news, I'm afraid.

Your D:\ drive wasn't a second hard disk but only a partition on the same disk as C:\. The new installation will have formatted the entire drive and wrote the new system on to the cleaned disk.

I'm sorry to have to say you have no chance of any data recovery in those circumstances.

But , what will happend if i got my dead c drive fixed and put back to my pc , does my files in the d drive goes back?

 

[Saga Lout]

Sorry; I missed the point about a new drive and assumed a reinstallation on the original.

I get three of these jobs in here every week and the best results I get are using Linux instead of Windows because it isn't so precious about MS file systems.

You could download, say, Linux Cinnamon Mint and use a utility named Rufus to combine Mint on to a thumb drive and make it bootable. Using that to boot a PC or laptop (tell BIOS or Function 12 to boot from USB) and the system will run without impacting on the existing system.

Contrary to my original remark, I do believe you could retrieve something but the specialist data recovery outfits are expensive and here in the UK, the more the customer stresses the importance of their files, the higher the price rises.

 

[helpstar]

Depends on what happened to the drive. You can try just plugging it back in and boot with your new drive. Eventually you can access the second drive.
If not, try pc inspector http://www.pcinspector.de/Default.htm?language=1

If this doesn´t work as well, you will have to send it to a professional data recovery service