any obvious choices for a data recovery program?

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Hello.
Windows xp was kind enough to (quick)format a 500 gb sata drive as 128
gb during an attempt to install it on a different (pata) drive, so now
I'm wondering what's the most reliable/convenient software that could
be used to recover some of the data on the sata drive.
Is there any obvious choice of a data recovering program that might be
able to retrieve some data from a ntfs sata drive that has been
formatted (in quick mode)?

Kind regards & thanks in advance for any suggestions, Niek
 
sobriquet said:
Windows xp was kind enough to (quick)format a 500 gb sata drive as 128
gb during an attempt to install it on a different (pata) drive, so now
I'm wondering what's the most reliable/convenient software that could
be used to recover some of the data on the sata drive.
Is there any obvious choice of a data recovering program that might be
able to retrieve some data from a ntfs sata drive that has been
formatted (in quick mode)?

Kind regards & thanks in advance for any suggestions, Niek
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Virtually all of the recovery programs can do that fine.

I like easy recovery pro, but it isnt cheap if you have to pay for it.
 
Virtually all of the recovery programs can do that fine.

I like easy recovery pro, but it isnt cheap if you have to pay for it.
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Is there any way to prevent further loss of data when hooking up the
drive and windows might automatically do things to the drive that
reduce the chances of data recovery?
Or can I simply hook up the drive, boot in vista and attempt a
recovery?
 
Is there any way to prevent further loss of data when hooking
up the drive and windows might automatically do things to the
drive that reduce the chances of data recovery?
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Or can I simply hook up the drive, boot in vista and attempt a recovery?
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You obviously need somewhere to install the recovery program unless
you run it from a live bootable CD like with Hiren's bootable CD, and
there is some risk of stuffing things up even worse given that the OS
does appear to be getting confused about which drive is which if that
wasnt just you getting confused about which one you told it to quick format.
 
You obviously need somewhere to install the recovery program unless
you run it from a live bootable CD like with Hiren's bootable CD, and
there is some risk of stuffing things up even worse given that the OS
does appear to be getting confused about which drive is which if that
wasnt just you getting confused about which one you told it to quick format.
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I have a 80 gb pata drive with a vista partition and that's were I
plan to install the recovery software. The 500 gb sata drive is a
separate physical drive.
I don't plan to try and install xp next to vista (on a separate
partition on the 80 gb pata drive) before making a proper backup (with
acronis) to avoid the hassle of installing vista again (xp didn't just
format my 500 gb sata drive, but also screwed up my vista installation
beyond recovery on the pata drive).
 
You obviously need somewhere to install the recovery program unless
you run it from a live bootable CD like with Hiren's bootable CD, and
there is some risk of stuffing things up even worse given that the OS
does appear to be getting confused about which drive is which if that
wasnt just you getting confused about which one you told it to quick format
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Regarding the confusion... I specifically paid carefull attention to
selecting the proper partition on the pata drive where I intended to
install windows xp, but subsequently neglected to pay attention to
windows which somehow suddenly decided it might be a good idea to
format that other drive.
 
Regarding the confusion... I specifically paid carefull attention to
selecting the proper partition on the pata drive where I intended to
install windows xp, but subsequently neglected to pay attention to
windows which somehow suddenly decided it might be a good idea to
format that other drive.
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The logic of this completely eludes me... I specifically pick a
partition where I want to install windows xp and windows xp responds
in the next screen by picking another drive and asking me to format
that drive, which I assumed to be the partition I had picked in the
previous screen where I intended to install windows xp. So, ok, it's
my mistake and I should have paid closer attention to what drive or
partition windows actually was going to format, but from my
perspective it sort of makes sense that if I pick a partition windows
asks me where I want to install windows that it is going to format
that partition in the next step.
 
Virtually all of the recovery programs can do that fine.

I like easy recovery pro, but it isnt cheap if you have to pay for it.
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I tried easy recovery pro (version 6, probably a bit dated) but it was
a complete waste of time. All it could recover after many hours were a
few lousy system files (e.g. 'desktop.ini').

I guess even a quick format is pretty permanent.
Not blaming you or the program or anything.. but at least I'm glad
I didn't pay for it (got it from piratebay). :-)
 
http://www.runtime.org/downloads.htm
download the trial first to be sure it will work for you... it should do the
job but one never knows.

btb






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Is there no website where a simple test is performed by
quickformatting a drive or corrupting the filesystem in some way and
seeing to what degree various utilities are able to retrieve files?
 
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