re: Vista Error - Recovery
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MartinM
(5135 messages posted)
On reinstallation the first thing that happens is quick format and re-partition.
It may not have "erased" your HDD, but all references to files are gone so they cannot
be found by ordinary methods. A few may be overwritten.
Your next steps depend how valuable the data was.
1. Do not attempt to do any recovery of the OS - that can only make it worse.
2. Mount the drive in a USB enclosure or in another PC. There's lots of file recovery
software out there - some reasonable stuff for free - eg for recovering photos from
SD cards, and simple tasks on a HDD, and more capable/comprehensive stuff that you
have to pay for. You may as well try free apps first. Google finds lots, and the
apps will probably find some of your files.
PC Inspector File Recovery might be a good place to start - and be prepared for a
vey tedious process - the app doesn't know which files you are looking for and you
cannot make it search by name; it just finds files in the order they're on the HDD
clusters so its going to take you an age to find and identify ones you want.
3. If 2, doesn't give you what you want then there are specialist data recovery services
which can be very good and are always expensive. Get a quote before starting that.
- Written in response to:
- Vista Error - Recovery (SeaTan: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 5:36 pm)
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