restore formatted hard drive

[ahaimour1224]

Hello,

After my old hard drive failed me unfortunately, I replaced it with one I found lying around, but then through the process of installing windows i formatted the hdd, then I realized it had alot of important information on it, any help for restoring the data would be great....

 

[lonewolf7]

Honestly there is very little or no chance of recovering data. You have formatted and written over it during installation of OS, so I think its gone. There would be a chance to get back the data if you were just formatted it and not written over it. You can try your luck with these data recovery software's :

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/

 

[ahaimour1224]

Honestly there is very little or no chance of recovering data. You have formatted and written over it during installation of OS, so I think its gone. There would be a chance to get back the data if you were just formatted it and not written over it. You can try your luck with these data recovery software's

Thanks I am actually recovering some files but still though still I have hope as they are extremely important , time to get religious

 

[ahaimour1224]

go to the recovery center or use some data recovery software on you own. and obviously, software could be much cheaper. but you gotta choose a right one. minitool power data recovery or recuva are both good.

tried but unfortunately barely anything popped up thanks anyways

 

[lonewolf7]

So what is the situation now ? how is the recovery going ?

 

[ahaimour1224]

So what is the situation now ? how is the recovery going ?

Nothing useful unfortunately

 

[lonewolf7]

That was my biggest fear too. Anyways keep us posted. Good luck.

 

[stillblue]

So what is the situation now ? how is the recovery going ?

Nothing useful unfortunately

Formatting does not overwrite your drive. Were you accidentally installing the new OS on the old drive? If that is the case you will have overwritten some, only where the new system placed files but chances are your original system occupied some of the space used by the new one.

That said. Above was a recommendation for photorec, it's part of testdisk. If you haven't screwed it up too bad yet then try testdisk first and look for the old partition. If it is visible there you can hit p to list files and then copy them to a new drive, never copy back to the original or you may overwrite something with it. If it doesn't work then photorec is your next best bet. For it though I recommend you try and narrow it down to what you really need by selecting the extensions. Photos, docs, etal.

I prefer to do this with a live linux such as ubuntu or puppy linux on a flash disk just to make sure I'm not overwriting anything important.

 

[ahaimour1224]

Found everything well 13 are corrupted but they are useless 13 files I lost, important thing. Is that I got everything back THANKS EVERYONE SO MUCH TOM'HARDWARE ROCKS

 

[lonewolf7]

Glad to hear that. Cheers.

 

[stillblue]

Found everything well 13 are corrupted but they are useless 13 files I lost, important thing. Is that I got everything back THANKS EVERYONE SO MUCH TOM'HARDWARE ROCKS

May I add a WOOHOO to that. Nothing worse than losing data. A machine can be replaced but not always so the data.

 

[ahaimour1224]

bf4....... crashing after 10 mins of gameplay 🙁

 

[lonewolf7]

That game still has some bugs in it causing people many troubles, so you may be another victim.

Anyways what is your full system specs ? And is it happening with any other games ?

 

[ahaimour1224]

That game still has some bugs in it causing people many troubles, so you may be another victim.

Anyways what is your full system specs ? And is it happening with any other games ?

system specs for laptop:
i5 4200u 1.6-2.5ghz (automatically and usually runs at 2.5-2.8ghz)
8gb ddr3 1333 ram
nvidia gt740m
hd screen running at 1366x768
ps.nothing is overclocked

and no it doesnt happen in any other game

 

[lonewolf7]

Wait for a patch to release, hopefully all will be fine then. Don't worry. And GPU drivers are up to date ?

 

[ahaimour1224]

Wait for a patch to release, hopefully all will be fine then. Don't worry. And GPU drivers are up to date ?

Yes

 

[lonewolf7]

Ok. Just wait a bit for the patch to release.