How to recover files from a formatted external hard drive?

Q. I have a Seagate 500GB external hard drive and it crapped out on me. All it wants me to do now is to format it before I can use it. I had over 200GB worth of irreplacable text documents, photos, and more and now that I had to format my hard drive, all of my data was lost. I need to know if there is a way I can recover all of those files after formatting the hard drive for free insted of having to use a program that would probably make things worse

A. hello friends,
I was also facing the same problem. I formatted my drive and I lost some important data from my hard drive. I used hard drive recovery software to retrieve files from formatted hard drive. It worked really well,it recovered all data without missing a single file. I am thankful to provider of this tool. You can get more details from http://www.remosoftware.com/retrieve-formatted-hard-drive-data. use the trial version and if you are satisfied then you can download the full version here http://www.remosoftware.com/download#rwin .

What free downloaded program can I use to recover files from an undiscoverable drive?
Q. My D drive died yesterday, and after having a competent friend look at it, he told me to look for "system data recovery" "hard disk" and "slack space" on google to find a program to find the files that were on my D drive. He thinks they are in slack space.

If anyone can help me to recover my data, I would be very appreciative (I have a place to store the data just as long as I can recover the data from the undiscoverable drive). I really would rather not go to IT, so yes. I'd really appreciate it.

A. * PC Inspector File Recovery 4 (free):
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* Recover My Files Data Recovery 3.98:
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- download Serial:
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- Download serial Instructions:
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4- Open the file then open (Keygen.exe)
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- Instruction to activate the Patch

1- Close the program first
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3- move the file (power.data.recovery.3.1.1-patch.exe) to the place where you install the program then open it
4- A window will appear, Press (Patch) then close the window
5- Run the application.

How to copy Windows 7 from one hard drive to another?
Q. I have a 500 GB hard drive, and running out of space. I want to partition XP, 7, and windows 8 on the same HDD. I am hoping to get an upgrade to a 1 TB and before I make all these partitions and such, I'd like to know how to (if possible) copy (or "cut and paste") my windows 7 to the other hard drive, and copy data as well (basically migrate my entire hard drive to a larger one) how can I do this?

A. Yes you can, and, believe-it-or-not...it's fairly simple.

Download and install Easeus To-Do backup (choose the FREE version) form this link:

http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm

Once it is installed, choose the "Disk/Patition backup" option (you CAN NOT back this up to your origin OR destination drive!!!!) and follow the prompts.

When you are ready to restore your system, choose "Disk/Partition recovery" and select "Restore to dissimilar hardware". Follow the prompts...and you are done!!!

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How do I remove personal information from my computer hard drive?

Q. I want to give my laptop away, but I am a bookkeeper and I don't want to leave any financial information on the HD. I store all my documents on a server, so I don't think that is an issue. But, I'd also like to remove the "name" that is located in the user directory. I don't want to reformat the HD. Thank you.

A. To really get rid of something on your hard drive you have to go way beyond pressing the delete key.

Joan Feldman, president of Seattle-based Computer Forensics Inc., explains that when you delete a file, the computer's operating system marks the file with a symbol and, essentially, removes it from view. If you did a search for the file, it wouldn't show up, but it's still on the hard drive until it's been written over -- several times -- by other files.

Formatting the hard drive does not securely erase data and if you are giving away your hard drive, data recovery experts may be able to extract personal information from your hard drive. So if the data has to be permanently erased, an Eraser program can be used, which rewrites the hard drive with random data, so that the data stored originally on the hard drive cannot be recovered. A wipe program will overwrite with random data 7 to 35 times, so that no personal data can be retrieved.

is it difficult to replace an old router?
Q. i have a router and i think its very old and needs to be replaced because when i stream audio,video, or download, i lose internet easily no matter on wat computer, as long as ur on the connection. is it hard to replace the old router and get a new one ? cuz i was told to get a new broadband router would fix my solution?

A. what kind or router do you have now

Its not hard but I would have someone help you..

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I accidently deleted 60gb of my girlfriends files, is there any way to get them back?
Q. They arent in the recycle bin, they are gone, but would a system restore bring them back?

A. NO
NO
NO

Do not use the System Restore for recovering the files...this may destroy all chances of recovering the files...

There are some good options out there for file recovery (no, not PC Tune Up...checked the website and nothing is mentioned about file recover programs. If anything, you're likely to launch a defrag prematurely, which would eliminate any chance of recovering these files.

Why should you not defrag at this time...simple. When a file is deleted, it really isn't deleted from your drive. Instead, a special flag is set on the file information tagging it as deleted. Windows (and all other operating systems) see this flag and consider the file deleted (and not displaying it as a result). The file space on the hard disk is now available for another program to write over with it's own information files.

This is the key point...the file is there UNTIL something writes over top of it. If you defrag your drive, most, if not all deleted files will be overwritten, rendering them unrecoverable.

If you run either of these previously mentioned utilities (or several other shareware and commercial apps available) you should have reasonably good success at recovering most of the files.

Michael McLaughlin @ Iron Oak IT inc., Calgary, AB
http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeljmclaughlin
http://www.ironoakit.com

File Recover 6.2 for Windows
http://www.pctools.com/file-recover/?ref=google_fr&gclid=CJCAkcLBtZMCFQS7sgodHmW9CQ

File Recovery 4 (freeware) ... NOTE:::: NOT FOR VISTA
http://www.softwarepatch.com/software/filerecovery.html

PC INSPECTOR⢠File Recovery 4.x
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

ParetoLogic Data Recovery
http://www.pcperformancetools.com/recover-lost-files-email-data-pictures.htm?gclid=CI_tktrBtZMCFRYesgodGxHeDQ

ParetoLogic Data Recovery
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Active Undelete
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How do i use my toshiba recovery dvd to erase and reinstall windows ?

Q. If it press F12 on start up/ boot up and boot from the DVD will that erase and reinstall windows 7 ?

also would it remove any kind of virus or malware on the computer ?

A. well depending what you want to do what does the disc say it will do on the front? it probably will recorver lost data on your hardrive. If you want to reinstall windows 7 go buy the software. So look on the official website and ask an official toshiba expert and your answer will be held there.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/home.jsp
link above to toshiba support

What is the safest way to reinstall Windows?
Q. I have Windows 7. When I reinstalled Windows with my previous computer, my internet drivers have been deleted. So how do I safely reinstall Windows without anything wrong happening. My computer is getting slow, so I want it to be just like new.

If there's a long process, then please walk me through the steps. Thanks!

A. You might be able to have a recovery partition provided with your computer. That way you can just press a couple of keys and you should be able to restore your PC to factory default. If it's a Dell press Ctrl + F11 that way it goes into Recovery Mode or tap F8 repeatedly when the computer starts so you go into the Advanced Boot Options, there you will something like Repair your computer or Reinstall OS. If it's not a Dell you can use other keys to do the same or Install the Windows 7 disk and reinstall it as long as you have the Windows Sticker with your Product Key. Please have in mind that Reinstalling will remove all your data stored on your PC. Hope this helps. Let me know.

How do I completely format my hard drive with windows xp?
Q. I have a Gateway Computer build in 2005 and running windows xp. I would like to format the hard drive and reinstall windows xp. I have the system recovery cd that came with the computer. I am having trouble booting up with the cd. Any help would be appreciated.

A. Before formatting your hard drive you should take the opportunity to back up all important files and folders. As soon as you reformat your hard drive ALL data on that drive or partition will be destroyed.

1/ Before you can format your drive from the Windows XP CD you must ensure that your pc is able to boot directly from the CD - see 13. Enabling CD-ROM support in the BIOS

2/ Insert the XP CD into your CD-ROM and reboot your machine.

3/When the Welcome to Setup screen appears press Enter.

4/The next screen will show the license agreement. To accept press F8.

5/Setup will now scan your drive for existing copies of Windows.

6/ If another copy of Windows is found you will be given two options.

1.Repair.
2.Install New Copy.
7/ You need to install a New Copy so press ESC.

8/ The next Window will show a list of all current drives and partitions.

9/ Select the C: drive for your installation to be installed to and press Enter.

10/ The next window will show the format options. These are:

â¢Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (quick)
â¢Format the partition by using the FAT32 file system (quick)
â¢Format the partition by using the NTFS file system
â¢Format the partition by using the FAT32 file system
â¢Leave the current file system intact (No Changes)
The FAT32 file system is not available if your hard drive or selected partition is larger than 32GB.

11/ Select the file system you want to use and press Enter.

12/ Your hard drive/partition will now begin to format.

13/ After formatting has been completed Windows XP will continue to install on your hard drive




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how to recover data from encrypted partition after windows have been formatted?

Q. Hi, I am looking for means (data recovery tool or any other method) by which I can recover data from a hard disk which was encrypted using Safeguard Easy from Utimaco. The data is absolutely important to me. The OS (XP) was formatted and safeguard reinstalled. However the old partitions remain beyond capture. If you can please help me in this, I would remain ever grateful.

A. Without knowing specifically how Safeguard Easy actually encrypts data, I cannot give a definite answer, but here are some general insights I can give:

1. When the OS is reinstalled, it is usually possible to recover an old journal, FAT, or bitmap (depending on the filesystem.)

2. You will lose *all* data that was overwritten when the OS was reinstalled, unless you want to pay upwards of $100k to have the drive magnetically imaged. Even then it's highly unlikely anything more than fragments would be recovered.

3. If individual files were encrypted, it is a simple matter of recovering said files and decrypting them.

4. You're SOL if the encryption process involved anything more than an encryption key. If it is tied into a security token for the user account, or salted with anything that is non-persistant, it's gone.

5. If the entire (or most) of the drive itself was encrypted, not just file contents, you're SOL.

6. 3rd party encryption software is a bad idea in most cases. You are far better off using OS functionality to protect your data. BitLocker is a very good encryption system, especially on systems with a Trusted Platform Module (1.2 or later).

How do I access files from a hard drive that I accidentally formatted?
Q. I have a second hard drive on my computer that I used for file storage, (ie MP3s, movies, pictures, ect).

I accidentally loaded windows XP onto this drive, and now all the files are gone.

What is a good data recovery program? Can I do this myself?
I have a second hard drive on my computer that I used for file storage, (ie MP3s, movies, pictures, ect).

I accidentally loaded windows XP onto this drive, and now all the files are gone.

What is a good data recovery program? Can I do this myself?

I should note that the people who say the data is gone are dead wrong. As I can see some of the files when I open up the drive with Disk Doctors NTSF Data Recovery tool. SHould I use this software? Or use GETDATABACK or VirtualLab Client 5?

A. There's no way you can completely recover files from a formatted drive. But try using File Recovery.exe. This can recover some of your files but I think most of them are already corrupted.

How do I recover my bookmarks from Chrome?
Q. I just reinstalled Windows Xp and I forgot to save my bookmarks, is there a way I could get them back?
I tried installing data recovery programs but they're trial versions and they won't let me save the lost files..Please help :[

A. may be you have sync your chrome with your email account
if you have dont you can go to your gmail and restore your browser to previous version




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What is the best data recovery software?

Q. What is the best data recovery software for mac os x ? I'm choosing from Data rescue, Stellar data recovery and Disk Drill by Cleverfiles. Help me please. Thank you.

A. Definitely - Disk drill. I heard a lot of good testimonials about this recovery app. Look here at my source for more information.

What is mean by partition table? How data recovery softwares get information about our deleted items?
Q. What is mean by partition table? How data recovery softwares get information about our deleted items? From where do they find them?

A. Information is written all over the disk. The partition table is a list for displaying the lay out of which parts of the table are reserved for file systems. An example is one partition for Windows and another seperate partition for Linux.

When a file is deleted, the reference to where the data is located is removed, but the data is still written on the disk. A data recovery service/software can examine the whole disk and identify all data on the disk to include that which has no reference in allocation tables.

Can someone tell me how a data recovery software actually works?
Q. I've a presentation tomorrow in which I have to tell how a data recovery software works in a nutshell. How it traverses through HD, how it judges whether the data is a complete file or Allocation Table....? How it tells what's the file extension? etc
Plz tell if you have relevant information... best answer gets 10 points!

A. My friend its a very big process to explain how recovery data software works.But one thing i know that when data is lost it can be recovered by data recovery services. One of my friend use the data recovery service to recovery his lost data fro http://www.recovermypc.com/




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USB protected by a utility software and unable to format?

Q. I am trying to create a system recovery USB flash drive, on windows 7. The "error" message says that: DataSafe has detected that the USB key you have selected is protected by a utility software; we are unable to format this key. Is there anything I can do to the NEW $40 16 GB USB ScanDisk to make the program accept it??
Is there any way to do this without linux?

A. i think your datas are protected by some way
i dont know about windows 7 i have used it once or twice it really sucks
i am using XP with linux so if my usb got stuck
i switch to ubuntu
open the external drive and change the file permission
then switch back to windows xp
do the file operation

What program to retreive deleted usb drive files?
Q. Which program on www.download.com is good for retrieving usb drive files and what program is safe without viruses, also i know those programs retrieve deleted photos. but what i deleted were mp3 files that i bought on amazon a long time ago, could it retrieve those files aswell? thanks in advance guys.

A. i use this never failed, there free ones available just google free data recovery programs
http://www.easeus.com/

Can you see the contents of an external hard drive after its been unplugged?
Q. I had an external hard drive loaded onto my computer, but it dropped and died. I want to review what was on there (filenames, not contents, obviously) to see if its worth sending to data recovery.

Is there some way to see that? The folders were visible on my computer at one time, and I haven't shut it off or cleared the RAM. Any ideas?

Thanks, I'd really appreciate it.

A. with compupic pro i am being able to do that
but i erases after you disconnect a drive, as an usb memory pof a hard drive.
And cenatek's ramdisk is able to load all of a program into memory, that it means that kind of things its possible.
The problem is how to take data bak from memory to hard disk. Its like when you rise the buffer on winamp, you place a cd, load the winamp buffer (eg. 55000kb) and then expulse the cd and the music still is playing on winamp.
I was looking many time ago a software like that and nothing appears yet.
Someone must be wonking on it at any place but at least someone is doing it, im sorry i can't help more.




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HELP!!!! How do I fix my hard drive?

Q. I have a apple powerbook G4 laptop and it started messing up last night. It woulnd't come on, then today it did come on and it was running really slow. It was making this clicking noise. So I took it to the apple store and the guy said it was my hard drive. I have apple care on it, but they don't do hard drives. Please help me, thanks.

He said I would have to go a data recovery company cause apple doesn't do it, and see if my data can be retrieved. This is the only computer I have, and I didn't back it up with anything. Is there anyway I can fix this myself or does anyone know of a cheap place near Dallas/Fort Worth, Tx area that does it for a reasonable price?
#2, and #3, I have EVERYTHING on my laptop. So, yeah, ALL my information is VALUABLE. If you don't have a real justified answer, please don't answer. I need REAL help from anyome who can give it, thanks again.
Linix os, It was working up until a few hours ago, now when i turn it on, it just shows a white screen with the apple logo and that's it. It won't do anything now. Is there anything else I can do?

A. Can you get this laptop connected to a network and share your files? I took my important files off of a dying hard drive by doing that. This worked when nothing else would.
A usb flash stick might also work as long as you can access your computer. It wouldn't work in my case.
If the hard drive is dying then putting it in another machine won't work. Tried that once and nearly fried the working machine.
Taking the drive to a recovery company should not cost more than a couple hundred dollars. Have also had to go that route. I'm near Chicago and I know a company here that does this service.

can someone tell me bout the 1947 Roswell alien sighting :)?
Q. no links please, just copy and paste the story somewere lol thanks.

A. sorry if this is a rather long answer

The story usually goes like this: It was a dark, stormy night in Roswell, around the Fourth of July weekend of 1947. An alien spaceship crashed on a ranch near the southeastern New Mexico town. A local rancher came across the wreck and took some of the debris to the sheriff, who brought in the Army Air Force in Roswell.
Maj. Jesse Marcel decided to accompany the rancher back to the site. After collecting some curious-looking debris with strange "alien" hieroglyphic markings, Marcel returned to the base. The Army Air Force announced the recovery in a news release.
Soon after, Marcel flew to Fort Worth, Texas, to show the material to Gen. Roger Ramey. But Ramey brought out a crummy old weather balloon and radar target for photographers, and tales of the cosmic cover-up began.
That wing of the story holds that, while the world placidly accepted the "flying saucer" as just a weather balloon, the government whisked the real alien ship and bodies (and, perhaps, even a living alien) to Wright Field in Ohio.
By studying the aliens' technology there, humans learned about lasers, integrated circuits and the like. President Truman formed a top-secret science commission to handle all matters alien, called "Majestic 12."
And now the aliens are living peaceably underground in Area 51, helping the United States reverse-engineer even more new gadgets. But the government has successfully and ruthlessly suppressed any official release of any information regarding these Earth-shaking events for more than five decades.

What really happened in Roswell

Something fell from the sky and landed near Roswell in the summer of 1947. But it didn't come from outer space. It came from . . . Alamogordo!
In fact, the legend of Roswell can be traced directly to a series of top-secret physics experiments designed to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
The real story of the Roswell Incident actually begins on Aug. 27, 1883, the day that the Indonesian volcano Krakatoa blew its top with a blast literally heard around the world. Time-of-flight analyses were performed on the volcanic rumbles for several different cities, and it turned out that the sound waves must have traveled in very cold air -- such as can be found 50,000 feet up, between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere, where we live) and the stratosphere (the upper atmosphere).
Indeed, that part of the sky acts as a natural wave guide for very loud sounds, such as are produced by volcanoes -- or by nuclear bombs.
In the days after World War II, U.S. scientists were rightfully concerned about the Soviets getting The Bomb. Desperate for a way to monitor possible Soviet bomb tests, the scientists began Project Mogul, with the goal of using high-altitude microphones to triangulate the positions of bomb tests. Mogul was the secret name for the program, which involved getting the microphones placed in the upper atmosphere for long periods of time.
That turned out to be very difficult. At night, for example, it gets cold, and normal balloons drop like stones.
And so it was that an unclassified part of the program, "Constant-Level Balloons," was carried out by graduate students from New York University. The first launches of the elaborate microphone-carriers -- long trains of balloons, radar reflectors and parachutes -- were done on the East Coast. They failed miserably.
The project moved to Alamogordo.
Charles B. Moore, a New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology professor emeritus of physics, was then one of those NYU graduate students. He has made public many of his recollections of those days.
The NYU group's first launch from Alamogordo, on June 4, 1947, was lost somewhere around Arabela, N.M. "Chase crews" in those days didn't fly jaunty pickup trucks but flew B-17s that followed the balloon trains, listening for data.
The complex, 600-foot-long assemblage of Flight No. 4 included two dozen balloons, three radar reflectors, some parachutes and black boxes. The reflectors were shaped like jacks -- eight-sided structures made of balsa wood and tough, shiny, metallic-coated paper. A toy company in Manhattan made them on the side, and the company chose a curiously decorated tape to reinforce the reflectors.
Moore launched hundreds of these targets and marveled time and again at the unknown purpose of the strange hieroglyphic-like markings on the reflectors.
Ten days after the June 4 launch, rancher Mac Brazel came across a field strewn with remnants of balloons and bits of metallic foil -- almost certainly the remains of NYU Flight No. 4. Ten days after that, on June 24, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported a sighting of strange flying objects that "skipped like saucers."
This event plunged the nation into a brief but intense "flying disk" craze, with frantic new reports of sightings of the "disks" coming every day. There was even a total of $3,000 offered for the recovery of a real disk. For weeks, the story was every bit as intense as

Can internet history be recovered even after it has been deleted?
Q. I'm in an argument with my mother because she believes that I have been watching... Naughty things. Well, she's right. I have clicked into some bad things every now and again on my laptop which is always connected to my home's WiFi router. I have always cleared my history at the end of each browsing session, and on top of that I use CCleaner to wipe my index.dat files, temporary files, and even registry, so I know she hasn't been snooping through my laptop. Can she ask our Internet Provider (Local company, nothing big like AT&T or Charter) for a list of the websites or their IPs? Can she be using a software to view my history from her computer from which the router is connected? Or is she just bluffing that she's seen some of the sites I've been on?

Furthermore, she says that she can have my laptop taken and âHacked intoâ to find out what I've been on. Can she really, legally do this? And even if she could, would it matter seeing as how I've got the temporary files, .dat files, and history files cleared clean?

I'm not addicted to the stuff, it's just every once in awhile, but I just don't think I could take the stress of the embarrassment. Permitting she could/has done any of this, what can I do to lock my laptop and its secrets up like a fort? A software, a hardware configuration even. Again, I am NOT addicted to anything, my mother is just very invasive when it comes to privacy and I would probably have a breakdown if I was ever embarrassed like that; I get closer to stopping completely everyday.

Thanks All!

A. You're probably safe as far as history and the like go considering you delete it and use CCleaner. There are certain ways to recover deleted data, but it's not foolproof, usually involves certain third party recovery programs. The more you use a computer after deleting the data, the harder it is to recover. CCleaner may make it impossible to recover that data anyway, not sure. But I doubt she's doing this, would know how to do this, or would get results if she did do this, so I wouldn't worry about this one.

As for the ISP. I doubt they'd take the time to find her the logs. Maybe. Browsers like Tor help encrypt traffic, though that's not a foolproof defense against ISP logs. For the most part, you're probably safe here anyway. And ISPs typically only keep logs for up to six months, and only for legal reasons. You should be safe.

The fact that she uses the term "hacked into" tells me she's not too computer savvy so I especially wouldn't worry about the above two issues, but anyone she took the computer to would likely try the recovery thing I mentioned above. Check into Eraser tool, provided here: eraser.heidi.ie/

She can legally do whatever she wants, especially if she paid for the laptop. Unless you're not a minor. Even if you aren't a minor she could always kick you out of her house. But I doubt it would come to that.

Keep a password on your computer. Use encrypting software. Use Tor. Set firefox to delete all data from the session whenever you exit. You should be fine. Of course, it is worth mentioning that legally to enjoy adult entertainment you must be of a certain age. While I doubt the FBI is going to kick down your door for watching porn as a teenager, it's always important to keep your legal rights in mind.

One more thing to look out for. SOME routers carry logs of internet traffic for short periods of time. If you know your router password (NOT your wireless password, but the router administrative password), you can check for this by going to your default gateway. To find the link to your default gateway using Windows, go to the start menu, search. Type cmd. In the black box that appears, type "ipconfig". Type the numbers across from default gateway into your browser.

Actually, I'd just (discretely) see what model your router is, and google rather or not it carries logs of internet traffic.




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