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by hal 9000

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OK I'm the first to think that this should really be a Q & A topic but I would like some input for this question.

Recently I had one of my staff wanting to wipe a HDD so I told him to use the computer in my office. Instead of using the 200 MMX with the covers off it which could do a Low Level Format in the BIOS he just walked up to my workstation which is a Dual Processor with Built in SCSI and ripped off the covers and promptly attached the drive and rebooted. Instead of going into the BIOS he must of been thinking that all IDE drives would be Auto Detected and inserted a Windows 98 Boot Disk and just typed FDISK.

He then proceeded to wipe the 20 GIG HDD that he had attached but in actually fact wiped a 200 GIG SCSI drive which had all the latest data on. Now while I can recover all the data it comes up as 1 - X file extension like JPEG, DOC, WPD, PDF or whatever.

Has anyone found a decent Data Recovery program that is able to recover the data on a drive like this instead of sending it off to a specialist Data Recovery place?

Col

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by mrafrohead

As long as you have NOT written further data to the drives, you will be just fine.

There are a few tools that you can use.

Some you can buy or trial are:

Ontrack - EasyRecovery Pro 6.3 ( I use this one )

R-Studio Pro - this works also.

OR

I stumbled upon this site to RESTORE your partition tables from an accidental removeal of the tables, like in Fdisk. Only problem is I haven't been able to test it as it needs to be compiled. It's freeware...

Here's the link to the recovery tools that I just mentioned in the paragraph above.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/

Lemme know how this works out for you.

Mrafrohead

BTW - don't sweat this at all, it's nothing to get your stuff back. You'll be just fine. Just DONT write to that disk that you need to recovery from.

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