is it possible to recover data from reformated hard drive?
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Anything is possible find your self a recovery program. I prefer Easy Recovery Professional very user friendly interface with a lot of recovery options you can also visit download.com and find your self some free recovery tools.
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Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.
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probably if you are using xp professional, you can use system restore and you can recover your deleted files.
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that depends how you lost it. if your hard drive was formated you don't have any chance to retreive it. if the data was erased you can use a HDD data recovery program such as Recovery Genius. but you won't be able to recover it if it was overwritten on the Hdd.
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Use any one of the utilities \nhttp://www.pcworld.com/downloads/collection/0,collid,1295,00.asp\n\nto recover files
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try data recovery software\nsearch in google u will get a lot site\ni'm giving u a link to a page , click here:\nhttp://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=data%20recovery%20software&tag=srch
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You can try using programs that allow you to recover deleted files.  Go do www.download.com and do a search for "undelete" or "recover deleted files" and try that.  Be sure to check the license to be "free" or you might end up installing crap.  Otherwise try "eData Unerase Personal 3.0" or "Disk Investigator 1.31" both available for free at download.com\n\nNO NO NO- DO NOT USE SYSTEM RESTORE!!!!!  SYSTEM RESTORE DOES NOT RESTORE DATA.  If you use it, there is a VERY high chance that you will write over the spaces on your drive that still contain the deleted information.  DO NOT DO THAT!!!!
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I would have reformatted it. If you had a boot sector virus for instance, It will likely still be there.\n\nI use the wash utility found in webroot windows washer.\n\nYou can either install the hard drive as an extra storage drive and write zeros across it or you can make a floppy disk and boot to that.  In this situation you would only want the old drive plugged in as this is the drive you are to clean.\n\nWebroot windows washer is very easy to use. You can use the free trial to do this.  See link below.\n\nSo there is no confusion, I am an affiliate. I don't care if you  purchase it or not. I am simply  providing that link because the trials from my website are fully functional. If you get it from the website it just shows you what needs cleaning. \n\nSimply formatting or fdisking your computer DOES NOT ERASE ANYTHING.\n\nHope that helps\nNigel
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Your best bet is to boot from floppy or CD and just repartition/reformat the hard drive.
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you would have to buy recovery software that can scan the disk at the lower level and try to find files that have not been overwritten already. Do not understand why it would be formatted daily, that is very unusual, and is hard on the drive
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Sometimes utility programs can do a good job recovering the data.\n\nbad copy pro works well for me
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Easy recovery professional and other data recovery software can recover data from hard drive.\n\nbut for that hard drive should be in detectable condition and media of disk should be readable for having a little damage drive in working condition try putting it in freezer for 1 or 2.
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If nothing can read it you would have to use an advanced program that uses bit stream copying to get the information back. Through any normal means the hard drive is dead and all information is lost. If it is imparative that you get the information off of it take it to a computer repair shop and ask them to retrieve whatever data they can. If it is not important to save the data that was on there you will need to buy a new drive and set up your computer again. Hope this helps.
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don't fragment your hard disk\n\nDownload PC Inspector File Recovery from http://www.pcinspector.de/download.htm\n\nInstall it, follow guidelines
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There is a software called Easy recovery that has tools for testing the mechanical and logical functions of any hard drive.  You need another hard drive if you are going to attemp any data recovery though.  Check the website.
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Hope's not lost, just get a disk recovery tool and there you go. yOU CAN GET IT FROM HERE: http://www.download.com/Recover-My-Files-Data-Recovery/3000-2248_4-10542385.html
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Ignore the noobs who say nothing can be done.\n\nYou can try this software\nhttp://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm\n\nOr, if you are prepared to pay real money, there are a range of professional 'data recovery' firms who can get data off almost any drive. Not cheap but possible.\n\n///