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when booting up from a vista cd I accidentally had my usb external hard drive
plugged in and the drive has been emptied and replaced by windows there are
sintimental photos etc on the drive can anyone help me to restore them
 
grannynanny said:
when booting up from a vista cd I accidentally had my usb external hard
drive plugged in and the drive has been emptied and replaced by windows
there are sintimental photos etc on the drive can anyone help me to
restore them
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Standard data retrieval information:

it may be possible to retrieve the data by software methods. DO NOTHING
FURTHER ON THE DRIVE. The data is still on the hard drive but if you
overwrite it, it will be extremely difficult or impossible to recover it.
If you use data recovery software, install it on another machine and either
use it from that operating system or create a bootable cd/floppy and work
with that. If you don't have the skill and/or equipment to do these
procedures and the data is crucial, take the machine to a professional
computer repair shop that has experience in doing data recovery. This will
not be your local version of BigStoreUSA. In-shop data recovery is usually
not exactly cheap (for ex., my charges are generally $150-350USD), but it
normally costs less than sending the drive to a company like Drive Savers.
You need to make the determination of the value of your data and decide
what to do.

If available data recovery software can't retrieve the files - or if money
isn't a factor and the data is truly crucial - consider sending the drive
to a professional data recovery company like Drive Savers (my preference)
or Seagate Data Recovery. General prices run from $500USD on up. Drive
Savers recovered all the data on a failed laptop drive for one of my
clients and it cost $2,700. He thought it was worth the money; only you
know what your data is worth. I understand that some insurance companies
are now covering data recovery charges so check with yours.

Drive Savers - http://www.drivesavers.com
Seagate Data Recovery Services - https://www.seagatedatarecovery.com/

Here are some links to data recovery software. I use Easy Recovery Pro, but
it is expensive. People whom I respect have recommended R-Studio and
Restoration. YMMV.

http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/RESTORATION.html
PCInspector File Recovery -
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/welcome.htm
Executive Software ?Undelete? -
http://www.undelete.com/undelete/undelete.asp
R-Studio - http://www.r-tt.com/
File Scavenger - http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
Ontrack's EasyRecovery - http://www.ontrack.com/software/

Malke
 
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