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restoring pictures from a formated hard disk

Please this is very important, if you can tell me how to recover files effectively,
i have an HP desktop, i had 2 partitions and on the D: i had pictures
then i restarted the computer and entered the disks that came with it (recovery disks)., and formated everything
is there any idea, or a software to get these pics back??????????????

originalbiffmalibu

Yes, there is. Ontrack data recovery software performs this task very well. There are others but I believe they all cost quite a bit of $.

Exchange_Admin

I hope the above works for you.
No offense meant, but you really need to learn about backing up your data.

I really do wish you luck and hope that this lesson is not too expensive.

rindi

You will only be able to get that data back which hasn't been used by your new installation, below are some tools:

Unstoppable copy tool
http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html

GetDataBack:
http://www.runtime.org/
Free for restoring one file at a time. Is supposed to work really good.

PC Inspector:
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

OnTrack DataRecovery:
http://www.ontrack.com/Homepage.aspx?id=3&pagename=Software

Restoration:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Other Data Recovery Tools:
http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.shtml

nobus

here is my list of recovery software, i heard good things about Stellar; but whatever you do, do not install anything on that partition !

http://www.runtime.org/                                    GetDataBack
http://www.stellarinfo.com/                                    Stellar
http://www.bitmart.net/                                    Restorer 2000
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html                        Restoration
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/activeundelete.html                        Active undelete
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm                  pc Inspector
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html                        flash recovery
http://www.ontrack.com/                                    ontrack
http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/                  Easy Recovery
http://www.cgsecurity.org                                    Test Disk + utils
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/setup.exe                              zero assumption

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