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Recover data from overwritten partition
Hi,
I am hoping someone can help me. Here is my situation....
I have 1 SATA hard drive that was running windows XP NTFS. There was a power outage and some of the windows files got corrupt and the system would not boot. The end user ended up using the HP restore utility and blew away the original partition data. The computer now boots (its back to factory defaults from the image) but of course there is no data.
How can I restore that data from the old partition?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I am hoping someone can help me. Here is my situation....
I have 1 SATA hard drive that was running windows XP NTFS. There was a power outage and some of the windows files got corrupt and the system would not boot. The end user ended up using the HP restore utility and blew away the original partition data. The computer now boots (its back to factory defaults from the image) but of course there is no data.
How can I restore that data from the old partition?
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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recovery soft will only recover data that is NOT overwritten by the HP restore utility .
you can try these guys, but it will cost a lot to recover overwritten data : http://www.gillware.com/
you can try these guys, but it will cost a lot to recover overwritten data : http://www.gillware.com/
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I was able to recover the documents with "getdataback". Thanks Vallis.
However, I think some of the word docs are corrupt. Word wants to do an import on some and it just displays weird characters. Any ideas?
However, I think some of the word docs are corrupt. Word wants to do an import on some and it just displays weird characters. Any ideas?
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I am trying "getdataback" right now. I will let you know how it turns out.