A few weeks ago I asked for advise on software to help with recovering files from a drive that was 'accidently' reformatted.
I found several products by Googling and tried their demos.
I decided on Recover My Files by GetData
Their warranty is that if the file can be previewed, it can be recovered.
Well, after an hour and a half of a 'reformat scan' I recovered all of the images of family and friends, and several hundred PDF files of woodworking plans. It found files from several formats ago, back to the late 1990's that I had forgotten about.
The only downside is that the files names and folder locations are not always intact, so I have work to do to reorganize the files and rename them. Strangely, most of the PDF file names are intact, but the image files are not.
This drive is an old IDE drive that has been used as the OS drive, reformatted and used for a storage drive and formatted again.
Let me assure you, delete, format, rewrite, whatever, stuff doesn't go away and can be recovered.
I will be gettin a disk washer/wiper before I sell/give/trash a drive, unless I burn it.
And, all the files are now going on a DVD!
I found several products by Googling and tried their demos.
I decided on Recover My Files by GetData
Their warranty is that if the file can be previewed, it can be recovered.
Well, after an hour and a half of a 'reformat scan' I recovered all of the images of family and friends, and several hundred PDF files of woodworking plans. It found files from several formats ago, back to the late 1990's that I had forgotten about.
The only downside is that the files names and folder locations are not always intact, so I have work to do to reorganize the files and rename them. Strangely, most of the PDF file names are intact, but the image files are not.
This drive is an old IDE drive that has been used as the OS drive, reformatted and used for a storage drive and formatted again.
Let me assure you, delete, format, rewrite, whatever, stuff doesn't go away and can be recovered.
I will be gettin a disk washer/wiper before I sell/give/trash a drive, unless I burn it.
And, all the files are now going on a DVD!
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