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.

Help to delete whole data from Sony ericsson W550i permanently?
Q. The problem is that, I want to sell my sony ericsson w550i phone.
Once it contains images of my friends and family, but I deleted every data, for the selling purpose.

I heard that, there are ' data recovery programs ' to retrieve any deleted data.
Is that programs can retrieve any data from my mobile phone??

Is there anyway to delete the whole data in my phone permanently ??

Kindly requesting your guidance and help, in this matter.

Thanks,
Mimi .

A. If you do a master reset or delete data on the phone you data will not be able to be recovered. Once you delete the date itâs gone.

-Melany
Sony Ericsson Answers Team

How can I completely delete EVERYTHING on my pc?
Q. When I say EVERYTHING, I mean EVERY single trace of pictures, documents, videos, etc.

Even if I were to use a Data Recovery Program, there will be no trace of them. How can do that if possible?

A. DBAN as suggested above (which I couldn't get to run on Win 7), or Active @ Killldisk.

> Active @ Killldisk: http://www.killdisk.com/

Edit @ The Arfen: Your link opens directly to a download dialog box... how about a link to read about it before the asker (or anyone else) downloads it?

DBAN can do several different methods of delete, including Gutmann.

Edit @ everyone else:
Formatting and/or reinstalling the OS will NOT make previous info unrecoverable.




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