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by dwarflord38

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Greetings all,
My colleague went to a job today with a hard drive crash, The disk is NTFS and contains some access data bases. The disk was scanned and was found to have bad sectors and was not accessable.
I formatted the disk in the hope of being able to see the files beneath the formatt. The man has lost his business nearly if these .mdb files can't be recovered, does anyone know the best method of
recoverying these files , it is so very important.
I tried some basic tools but they have returned nothing.

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by nimmo

You shouldn't have formatted the hard drive.

If I have recover data I use shadow protect, shadow protect doesn't copy the file system it copies at sector level so as long as the disk can spin you will be able to get your data back.

As for recovering data after you have formatted the HDD you can find tools on the internet that scan the hard drive and will pickup any data that is still readable to allow you to recover it.

by dwarflord38

Thank you for your time, could you recommend anything worthwhile.

by cmiller5400

Formatting it will have done more damage than good. Never mess with a drive that you absolutely need the data from and there are no backups (Backups are another issues in itself!) Try Ontrack data recovery. They probably can get the data back, although it will be mucho $$$$

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