[NtximHlub]

Hello tech support,
I need a little help I kind of reformatted my laptop without saving my photos, documents, musics, so i was wondering if their way could recover the files or how do i do a factory setting to recover them please help!!!! Thanks

 

[Corday]

After reformatting and what appears to be your using of the computer resulting in additional overwrites, recovery would be very expensive. If you're misusing the term reformatting, please post exactly what you did.

 

[NtximHlub]

Well my laptop was running slow and which I decided to extract them to folder but it's took forever so i just decided to reformat the whole laptop without saving anything, yes it's pretty expensive to try and recover though hopefully this gives you an idea

 

[Corday]

Try this: Recuva: Free Data Recovery tool - Piriform, but remember the more overwrite, the less recovery.

 

[SpywareDr]

Overwriting files -- intentionally or otherwise -- renders the erased(/overwriten) bits unreadable. Today's drives pack data so tightly there's no room for ghosts of previous bits.

 

[spunk.funk]

When you say you Reformatted your computer, did you reinstall Windows? If you just reformatted it and it is a bare drive, then it is easier to recover files. If you have reinstalled Windows, then your files are overwritten. It would be very difficult to recover, If Recuva doesn't work for you, you can try GetDataBack. If it can't find your files the only alternative is to send it off to the very, very Expensive Data Recovery specialists. Most people can't afford this option.

 

[NtximHlub]

Yes i reformatted the whole computer and I did try the recuva data recovery as well it's only save some what half of the files not all of the other ones...

 

[Corday]

That's probably as far as you can get without an expensive forensic outfit.

 

[LMiller7]

This is just one of the reasons why it is so important to make backups of your files BEFORE you have problems. After may be too late. Recovery methods after an incident cannot be relied on.

 

[spunk.funk]

Give GetDataBack a try, it is free to download and scan. It will report what it found and cost a little money if you want to restore those files to another drive of the same size or larger. If it doesn't find any more files then Recuva, you don't have to pay for it.