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<a href="https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec" rel="ugc">https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec</a> is a free software that is quite capable. &quot;The best&quot; is hard to tell.<br />
It is important that you don't boot that drive itself, but boot a rescue system (either windows setup or windows 2 go if available) in order to avoid write access to the drive. If you need help, just ask.<br />
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PS: timely feedback on your bitlocker question is appreciated.
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Try Recuva, it's disk recovery tool with the ability to recover files from damaged or newly formatted files<br />
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<a href="https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/download" rel="ugc">https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva/download</a>
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mount the drive in another machine as a data drive<br />
I've had good success with<br />
<a href="https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm" rel="ugc">getdataback</a> and &nbsp;<a href="https://www.r-studio.com/data-recovery-software/" rel="ugc">r-studio</a> both offer trials to see if the files can be recovered
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2nd Getback.<br />
Always worked for me.
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Welp, I dusted off my WinSetupfromUSB skills and followed the LiveCD creation for GetDataBack...<br />
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Creating the Runtime Live USB Stick<br />
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It is also possible to directly create a bootable USB stick from the Runtime Live CD ISO,<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="https://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-live-cd.htm" rel="ugc"> Download the ISO image of the Runtime Live CD**)</a><br />
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I ran the GetDataBackup application to scan the large volume. &nbsp;It shows the current contents of the drive but no data from the previous OS setup. &nbsp;It sounds like a lost cause.
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I have never have had success with Rucuva so I skipped it. &nbsp;I tried Rstudio too. &nbsp;It was unsuccessful as well.
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Going into a client to try to resurrect 20 files that we know the exact name of but the computer was completely (reformatted) wiped of Windows 7 and a fresh copy of Windows 10 was put in its placed. &nbsp;This wiped W10 computer has only been booted up a couple times since but has been mainly turned off since the reformat. &nbsp; What's the best hope/solution for recovering these files?
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Going into a client to try to resurrect 20 files that we know the exact name of but the computer was completely (reformatted) wiped of Windows 7 and a fresh copy of Windows 10 was put in its placed.  This wiped W10 computer has only been booted up a couple times since but has been mainly turned off since the reformat.   What's the best hope/solution for recovering these files?

Windows Data Recovery from a reformat

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Windows 10

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