Somehow my hard drive got formatted , PLEASE HELP.

[Saumya Dudeja]

Hello , long story short , I was trying to install Kali Linux and somehow I messed with partitions and my HD got formatted , I want to recover my data urgently , it had my urgent files , without them , I would be hopeless , I haven't overwritten any data on my HD , its a WD Blue 500 GB , right now I am thinking to use hirens boot disk and run restore , I also don't have any other systems , nor any other disks , just this and a laptop one..please help
Specs -
Amd 8320
Ga 970a ds3p
8 GB a data xpg 4x2

 

[delellod123]

you may need to buy some data recovery software.
http://www.format-recovery.com

 

[Saumya Dudeja]

Bro my main prob is I have only 1 hard drive and 1 system , so I can't boot anything, my other system is a lappy so I can't connect my PC HD to it , will hirens CD not work?

 

[delellod123]

your only options are to
1. buy another internal hard drive, to install OS on and run recovery software
2. bring hd to data recovery lab (very expensive)
3. buy an external drive, install operating system, run data recovery software.

When you are done, you could just format and return drive

 

[Saumya Dudeja]

So assuming that 'operating system' also includes Ubuntu , I can run a live USB Ubuntu and recover the files to a large pen drive? Is it possible , again , I say , is there a way to use the hirens CD or dos recovery tools?

 

[delellod123]

no sure. You can try a dos recovery tool.

 

[Saumya Dudeja]

Do you know any?

 

[delellod123]

http://www.partitionwizard.com/partition-wizard-bootable-cd.html

a bootable program. You won't need a new hard drive with this.