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    Trying to recover data

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Thundr, Jan 1, 2014.

  1. Thundr

    Thundr Notebook Evangelist

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    Top 10 Free Data Recovery Software

    I have Best Buy black tie warranty and when they sent it to the repair center to fix the fan and keyboard, they wiped the hard drive too. How do I restore this? Do I need an external drive first to restore it to? I already downloaded a whole bunch of stuff on top of the formatted drive, would that have an effect on the success of the restoration?

    I think it was formatted around December 20th (last month)
     
    Thundr, Jan 1, 2014
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  2. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    Wow sorry to hear that but step one, do not do any more writing to the drive. Set it up as a slave drive or attach it to another computer via an enclosure.. I used the free version of recurva in the past with some success but that was with a failing hard drive.
    Recuva - Download
    once you have it attached to another computer load recurva on it..
    This video explains it better than I can Recover & Restore Deleted Files With Recuva - YouTube
    PS I hope they did a quick format.
     
    JOSEA, Jan 1, 2014
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  3. 3Fees

    3Fees Notebook Deity

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    Try several recover software's, one is bound to work


    Cheers
    3Fees :)
     
    3Fees, Jan 2, 2014
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  4. StormJumper

    StormJumper Notebook Virtuoso

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    Advice it is never a good think to download to the deleted or formatted drive. Remove it and use it on another computer attached and do the recovery of the data. I use KillDisk Undelete and it works very good to get deleted files back but if the KillDisk Undelete can't find it then your data is good as gone and if recovered corrupted so badly it is of no value to you. I would go back to the shop and ask them to pay compensation for doing that stupid thing of wiping your HDD when you came to fix the fan and keyboard. I would demand they reimburse and make amends to fix the problem they created because they did something they were not allowed do or even ask your or get your signed consent to do but did it on their own thinking they would get away with it. Oh another thing are you sure they gave you back your HDD not another HDD so they have your real HDD but gave you one of their own and formatted it and pass it off your own??? You might want to double check on that as well................
     
    StormJumper, Jan 4, 2014
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