Hello.
I have a Netbook "Acer Aspire One" and wanted to recover it, But I have a problem. The user Overwritten Data and most files can't recovered. Any idea?
I used "GetDataBack" version 5.2.XX and I want to know can I have better options?

Thank you.

Can you provide more details of the version of GetDataBack? I don't think there is a version by that number. It is either 1.00 or 4.33 AFAIK.

If user overwritten files, then IMHO there is nothing more you can do. GDB is pretty good, comparable to R-Studio and these two should recover anything that is recoverable barring hardware faults.

Oh sorry, I mean was "GetData Recover My Files 5.2.1.1964".
If data overwritten then nobody can recover it?

i think use rstudio

http://www.r-studio.com/


this is better

If you choose R-Studio, this article will help: File Recovery after Re-installing Windows.

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Yes: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/index.php

But you should realize, though it's an excellent data recovery software, its time machine functionality is still under development, so overwritten data is lost atm.

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Can it recover overwrites data?

What did they overwrite?
Did they re-install windows on the drive?
Was the drive formatted in Windows? Was it a quick format or extended format?
Was the drive zero erased or similar?

Finding these things out from the user can let you know if you wasting your time or not.

You need to do a "RAW" recovery and search by file extensions, R-Studio, UFS-Explorer etc can do this.

Your most likley not going to get any sort or file names or file directory back.

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depends on how much is overwritten. generally you wont know until you try and see the results. I recently recovered files from a mac that had a botched el Capitan install over the top of data that was actually thought to be saved beforehand, but wasn't. there were many many bad and corrupt files, but also many pictures and some documents were ok. I would say somewhere between 15 - 20%. It is going to be a nightmare for this customer to sort through though.

Thank you.
They formatted the drive and copy other file on most of it. For example, If the drive is 50GB then copy new files about 40GB.

If overwritten Data recovery is impossible then how government recovering data? I mean is that "NSA" can't recover it too?

it doesn't matter, overwritten data is gone, there isn't a government agency in the world who can recover it