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A Good recovery software ?
Can anyone recommend me a software that can help me recover my whole partition which was accidentally formatted ?
This is the situation in order..
1. Partition wiped out accidentally and pc could not boot.
2. I used my xp install cd to boot up and found my C drive was empty (completely unused)
3. Formatted the disk using NTFS file format (Quick)
4. Reinstalled XP on the fresh C drive
5. Boot up
6. Installed RecoveryMyFiles and used the Fomat Search to recovery formatted hard drive
7. Waited for 16 hours !!!!! then saved all the files onto my 80gb D drive.
8. And finally got the partition BUT there are too many corrupted files.. almost all the documents and excel files could not be read properly... and about 90% of .jpgs are corrupted.
I tried to use Irfanview to open the .jpg which couldn't show intially, but still fail.
It says that the file header could be found...
P/S
Because RecovermyFiles do not allow me to save the found files onto the drive that it has scanned, i have to save all of the files onto my D drive. But before that, i have transferred all my files from D drive to C, to create space. This is done after Recovermyfiles have scanned for the formatted partition.
I know that the golden rule for recovery of hard disk is not to write anything else to the drive (in this case my C drive). But I have unknowingly formatted with NTFS, and reinstalled XP. And have done the file transfer from D to C.
Could this make my mission completely hopeless?
Is there any hope of recovering my partition still? I certainly hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks a lot, in advance!