*Gulp* Formatted the Wrong Thing
 

Okay, a friend of mine formatted the wrong the partition on her computer. She had two and she was redoing her computer because she had a few virus's on her computer. She does this a lot, but this time she accidently reformatted the wrong one. So everything on there is gone. I am an idiot when it comes to computers, so I was wondering if there is anyway possible to get that stuff back.

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i dont think there is...but i know you can recover deleted stuff in windows using some recovery tool...not sure bout reformat.

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Most likely not. There is probably an extremely remote chance of using one of those data recovery programs though.

Ok. *phew* she found something and its getting back her stuff. Thanks for the advice anyway. Im also downloading something for her incase what she has doesnt work.

That system restore thing in XP has saved my ass a couple of times...it will take your computer back to EXACTLY how it was at a number of pre-determined points in time. Its about the only good thing about XP.

She tried that. Didnt work. Thanks though.

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the only good thing in xp where have you been theres lots of good things in xp. Like automaticly handling the connection protocols for the internet and lans. you dont have to have the disk for reloading different components. and its better then a mac =-D...macs sux j/k

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i think thats the difference between a long format or quick one. a quick one is 'possible' to get stuff back.

A quick format makes it easier to get your stuff back, but of course it's not guaranteed.

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nothings garentee'd once it writes over that section of the hard disk of which your files were that got deleted. I dunno if it can bring them back. if anything might be just bits and chunks

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Yea a quick format only deletes the FAT table (File allocation table) which makes it much easer to recover data from. A Full format turns every thing on the drive to 1’s not 0’s which many think it does. You can get data back even from a full format but you need some damn expansive hardware to do so.

No more worries my friends, she recovered everything! Absolutly everything! she was so happy she cried. Thanks for the hope you gave me by saying it was possible. Im glad because she has a ton of music and DVD's that she is going to burn for me.

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she really cried?

That makes me wanna cry...........*sheads a tear*

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care to share the name of the program she used to recover her stuff ?

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theres many.

i find FileRecovery Pro is a good one