guthagowtham asks:
My hard drive was recently formatted. My data was on the F Drive and now accidentally, while installing Windows 8 Release Preview, I formatted it After that some files related to Windows 8 were copied (but Windows 8 is not installed). I installed it on another drive. Now can I get back data from F Drive? If so, suggest me the free software that can do this.
21 Answers -
Paul Pruitt
October 17, 2012I used the commercial R-Studio to do this once. There are freeware that do it also but I’m not sure which one is the best/easiest.
Here’s my page from my website anyway that has some of the older freeware that I discerned could help with this a few years back: http://www.s2services.com/partitionmgrsfreeware.htm
As discussed I never really tested any of them.
October 17, 2012http://lifehacker.com/192982/geek-to-live–rescue-files-with-a-boot-cd
October 17, 2012After formatting the hard drive your data is still on disk, delete only the address of the file. It may, or may not, be able recovery all the data after using the software. So I suggest you to download and install the free version and discover formatted files.
For more information you can read this blog carefully and follow instructions given : http://windowsdatarecoverytool.blogspot.com
January 15, 2013Justin Pot
October 17, 2012You could try Recuva. It’s free and can sometimes find stuff. Good luck!
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Recuva is too good. It once almost saved my whole digital life
October 18, 2012This will help :-
October 18, 2012http://www.raymond.cc/blog/top-10-free-data-recovery-software/
Keefe Kingston
October 18, 2012I’d recommend a file recovery program like Recuva, which is free. Also, there are a few other free recovery tools in the MakeUseOf Best Windows Software list: http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-windows-software#recovery
Keep in mind that the data can only be recovered as long as it hasn’t been overwritten.
dhanunjayarao chunduri
October 18, 2012Try These 2 soft wares If you find usefull tell me,
http://djsoftguru.blogspot.in/2012/10/recover-my-files-v47-data-recovery.html
http://djsoftguru.blogspot.in/2012/10/recover-deleted-files-2012-v301-final.html
Jim Chambers
October 18, 2012Most recovery software is trialware, that either shows you what files are recoverable or will only recover a limited amount (eg 1GB) or files of a limited size (eg less than 30KB).
Saurabh Banwaskar
October 18, 2012You Can Use “Active file Data Recovery”,”smart Data Recovery”.(These Are Sharewares But can be Easily Found On google with cracked). I Will Also suggest Power Data Recovery
Edward Abrams
October 18, 2012There are a number of software programs out there that will do this. I used R-Studio (yes you have to pay for this one). I have not run into anything that I have not been able to find and recover with this program.
kumar raja
October 19, 2012Use Recuva, Professional Data Recovery and so many are there but this r free and better.
But it will recover Photos well rest of the things are not guaranteed U must Buy Full Version Recovery Softwares
Raja Pradeep
October 19, 2012Recuva is the best file recovery software.
Kaashif Haja
October 20, 2012I would go for “Easeus data recovery”
Priya Agarwal
October 21, 2012check recovery software at lipede.com
Oliver
October 22, 2012Frankly, there is very slim chances of recovery for your deleted items as the files in F:\ drive might be overwritten due to formatting & installing Windows 8. Moreover, free recovery software could make situation more worse.
I’d recommend to go with only professional software, if the data inside the drive were of high importance.
One great software you could use and trust is from Stellar Phoenix (Partition recovery), free to try and viewing recoverable files.
Boni Oloff
October 22, 2012I am using Recover My Files, it is working many times i try to recover deleted files.
ashish khajuria
October 22, 2012There are many tools online through which you can recover your data. But make sure that the tool should be capable enough to recover the data. Always watch preview of the recovered files then go for paid option. For more information about files recovery and recovery software you can visit http://www.kerneldatarecovery.com/
Hazmi Halwi
October 24, 2012Try RECUVA, its freeware, and it works for me to recover some of my files after my hard disk got reformatted
softwaredemons
November 5, 2012Use Recuva its best and its FREE
dragonmouth
January 30, 2013You can try PhotoRec and/or TestDisk
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
maria cater
March 6, 2013i recover my data successfully with minitool data recovery,
you may have a try
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