Data Recovery

[Joe Forster/STA]

Ontrack EasyRecovery Pro once saved almost all of the 100 Gigabytes of data from a physically damaged hard disk of a friend of mine...

[Neipas02]

I don't know Joe.. He said he reformatted.. I've been able to recover stuff froma damaged drive using Knoppix.. But a reformatted drive might take some serious muscle to dig for semi erased data.. it also depends on if he did a quick reformat or a deep reformat..

I've learned a good rule of thumb is to dig for data before you're forced to reformat or toss the drive.. Knoppix is a nice variation of linux and it runs at boot time all from a CD.. It's own little operating system without the need for hard drives at all.. it can however mount a hard drive and look at it from a 3rd person point of view.. you can recover data without risk of infecting another drive.. very useful tool. That and it's open source.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Well, it was just an answer, neither do I have any idea what the original poster did to his hard disk... (In my opinion, reformatting the hard disk all the time - virus infection, slowed down system etc. etc. - is a very bad idea, for many reasons, including this kind of loss of data; constant maintenance is preferred instead!)