Hi,

Details below:

Computer: Vista Home Edition

Problem: Data Loss due to installation of recovery disk

Attempts: Use Data Recovery Software from http://www.runtime.org/

and recovered some data but could not read all files. Some examples are attached below.

Is there any other software that can get data back ?

if it was overwritten by the reformatting or w/e, its time to say sayonara

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

overwritten files are gone. If you think the data is still there, try a few different logical recovery software. GetDataBack is one of them. different software gives you a bit different result.

My guess is you can get some back but you have to say SAYONARA（サヨナラ！） to some...

Good Luck!

When a computer gets an order to delete smth on the HDD it does not delete anything. Just marks the ocupied space as "ready to be used". When u start writing to the drive again - thats when the data starts geting overwritten. Now a simplified example. U have a file, *.mp3. A part of the space it used to occupie got overwritten. U recover the file back with a chunk missing. As a result - the file is corrupt and u cant play it.

GetDataBack claims to recover data when the drive was formatted. In my case installing the recovery disk formated the hard drive. Should it not recover the data as getdataback claims to ?

Thanks a lot for putting your point forward in this case.

It can recover data that was not overwritten with new data, it uses found MFT entries (using NTFS as the example) as well as data carving, but in a situation the file you need was overwritten with new data after the format, there is no getting that data back, in the situation of an OS format and reload you will NEVER have a 100% recovery, it is just not possible.

What Xander said. Recovery disk not only formated the drive , it also reinstalled OS on it. So it wrote onto ur drive after format = some of ur old data got overwriten. Sry m8.

there may be duplicate versions of the files on the HDD which are not referenced by OS due to overwriting of file table. I suggest you use a hex editor and search for text strings. Or some kind of software which searches for file headers only.

Maybe you should seek pro help.

Thanks a lot will update the post when i finish trying hex editor ! Its been very interesting time !!!!