HELP!! Reformatted computer!

amyruston · 11-09-2009, 10:02 AM

Hello,
I had a tech-savvy friend try to get rid of my virus on my laptop, and without consulting me, he reformatted my whole laptop to get rid of the virus! I am a multimedia designer, so you can imagine how upset losing all of my files from the last 5 years made me.

I know that I should have backed everything up, but does anyone know of a way to recover all of my files? (everything from JPG's, PSD's, PDF's AI's etc....)

Any advice or help would be appreciated!!!

**raptor_pa** · 11-09-2009, 10:18 AM

Scan with the demos of r-studio and getdataback and see which one does the best job of recovery. There is a chance if the OS was reinstalled that some files may have been overwritten. You will need to recover the files to another disk.

steveb1234 · 11-09-2009, 10:26 AM

A frreware option from piriform (ccleaner is one of their products) is recuva
download from this link http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
Another method is available from this link http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-5...er-pc-recovery

11-09-2009, 10:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
amyruston Registered User Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 1 OS: xp	HELP!! Reformatted computer! Hello, I had a tech-savvy friend try to get rid of my virus on my laptop, and without consulting me, he reformatted my whole laptop to get rid of the virus! I am a multimedia designer, so you can imagine how upset losing all of my files from the last 5 years made me. I know that I should have backed everything up, but does anyone know of a way to recover all of my files? (everything from JPG's, PSD's, PDF's AI's etc....) Any advice or help would be appreciated!!!

11-09-2009, 10:18 AM	#2 (permalink)
raptor_pa Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Central PA Posts: 4,878 OS: XP	Re: HELP!! Reformatted computer! Scan with the demos of r-studio and getdataback and see which one does the best job of recovery. There is a chance if the OS was reinstalled that some files may have been overwritten. You will need to recover the files to another disk. __________________

11-09-2009, 10:26 AM	#3 (permalink)
steveb1234 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 374 OS: xp, windows 7	Re: HELP!! Reformatted computer! A frreware option from piriform (ccleaner is one of their products) is recuva download from this link http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download Another method is available from this link http://en.kioskea.net/forum/affich-5...er-pc-recovery