Pro Magic Plus Wiped harddrive?

Hey guys I have promagic plus on a desktop my friend built me, by accident my brother hit the restore button when booting up the computer. So everything got wiped, is there anyway to retrieve the data and to the point before he wiped it?

-Thanks

 

First - do not use the drive (except for recovery)

How important is it? ... if its worth a few hundred to you get a recovery specialist...

Else:
You could try putting the drive into an external enclosure and from a second computer use data recovery software to restore to another drive...

 

Hmm, first get rid of your little brother. Now then, I remember reading that same question in one of my periodicals. It referred to a retrieval program that might work as long as the data was not overwritten.

I'm not sure about the details though, it might not fit in your situation.

 

agree with DetlevCM, try some file recovery program in external drive. most have a trial mode that will let you see what you COULD recover if you buy it. i have used Ontrack EasyRecovery and EASEUS Data Recovery in the past.
i have crossed promagic plus off my xmas list, anything that can wipe a disk that easy is not worth having. also from their blurb,
"This amazing software not only provides simple and fast system restore"... but also simple, fast system destroy?
"If your hard disk has more than one MASTER partition, please DO NOT download! " that lets me out anyway.

 

As I understand this question, promagic plus behaves like the old Norton Goback? You have a computer and it occassionally makes complete image back ups to a secondary (removable?) drive.

So you made this "backup" some time ago, worked with your computer, than your idiot brother caused promagic to start and overwrite all the work you've done since then, replacing it with the original backup image?

See, this is not your typical "oh darn my stuff got erased!" post. If promagic works the way I think it does, it didn't just erase the disk leaving the files behind but the directory structure wiped out--but rather it overwrote bit by bit your drive--overwriting your drive.

Meaning if parts of the drive that were not being used were overwritten.

Buddy, I think you're hosed. A very expensive data recovery service might get some of it back, but this is not a job for your basic file deleted by accident software.

I hope I am wrong, but I'd guess your best bet would be easyrecovery, which will read raw sectors and try to recover files. But if you want to recover your previous installation--I'd say no way.

Sorry

 

Try Recover My Files http://whitecanyon.com/recover-my-files-download.php

It is a powerful tool that could possibly recover files from a HD that has been reformatted. The demo version allows you to check whether your old files are recoverable. It won't actually recover them, but at least it would let you know if such files are recoverable.

PS: such recovery software should only be used for recovering data that you could not afford to lose. But for the application and OS, it would be easier to just reinstall them.

 

You may also try QueTek File Scavenger 3.2, which also works as the above.

http://quetek.com/