HARD DRIVE

[JULIAN_2]

My hard drive has been set to facory default in error, I think most of my information is still there but I cannot access it.

So I have lost tons of files,Is there anyway I can retrieve them, and does anyone know of any good packages to do so. Thanks

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

please post plattform,os and i/o architecture.

greetings,

Michael

[JULIAN_2]

Compaq Presario Desktop 5113EA

Windows ME

Processor Celeron at 800MHz

QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20 Hard Drive Capacity 20416 MB

System Board
DIMM Slot 1 (Synchronous) 256 Megabytes
DIMM Slot 2 (Synchronous) 64 Megabytes

PCI Bus

I have included information which may not be relevant as I am not sure what information you wanted.

Thanks for your help, If any require any other details let me know, I really hope youcan help me regain my lost data.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

what do you mean by set to factory default? May I assume, this is not the boot drive?

greetings,

Michael

[JULIAN_2]

Thr computer has been reset to what it was the day I bought it, so everything I have done, e.g.Excelfiles has been lost. So the computer is working fine, but without any data accumulated in the past 3 years, and this is what I am trying to retrieve.

Much of the information has not been written over, but I cannot retrieve it.

Thanks

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

excuse my question, if it seems stupid, but I still cant get the picture. How did you manage to erase all your work?

thanks for your patience,

Michael

[JULIAN_2]

I turned my computer on as normal on Friday and got to the desktop screen and it froze. After about 10 goes, I tried loading my emergency diskette which didn't work , I tried loading in Safe Mode, which didn't work. So I then tried to load my Compaq User Backup,which didn't work and displayed an error message. On the next restart an error message came up which said something like, no OS can be found on any disks, so I checked that my A; was empty and it was, so I did a check on C: in DOS and what was my D: (System Backup Drive), had replaced my C:.

I this point I realised that the my hard disk had been reformatted. So I decided to opt for the factory backup state, which would put it back to its original factory state , seeing as my C; drive had already been wiped.

So I think that the Compaq user backup option wiped my disk.

But I am in now in a situation where I have lost most of my files , I have used PC Recovery which has recovered about 30 files, But obviously I would like to find more.

[Abdullah Abulhasan]

You will have to decide what lengths you would go to to retrieve any of the lost data. Much of it may still exist, stored in a somewhat jumbled state on the original host drive.

Possible starting points, with downloadable utilities for inspecting the scope of data damage and recoverability are, for example at:

http://www.partition-recovery.com/ and at:

http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/

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