OMG! I lost all my data + iso dumps! Help! (HD is erased!)

Diathorus · (This post was last modified: 06-23-2010, 08:28 PM by Diathorus.)

I bought an external hard disk case, and it somehow fu**ed up my data on my old HD... I am on my old PC now and it forced me to format everything into a single partition...
I lost 35 GB of ISO's... Now I have to dump them all again!!
On top of that I lost 6 GB of screenshots (from WoW that I played when I had my own guild with 500 members and friends...) and other important data I will never get back...
Is there a way to retrieve everything back, or something???
I heard there are programs to recover, if so, which?
This really hurts Sad

It's like I haven't lived for 4 years... 4 years work and life is formatted! Sad

**thaCASHdude** · 06-23-2010, 08:50 PM #2

sorry to hear that, but i dont think there is way to recover it............

sNk · (This post was last modified: 06-23-2010, 09:03 PM by sNk.)

search for an file recovery programm on google....

you will find many interesting thing that you can try out....

http://www.google.de/#hl=de&q=file+recov...2f51805bc6

edit#1:
http://download.chip.eu/de/Pandora-Recov...38889.html

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

there are many of them.....

edit#2:
i have tried pandora recovery... found some old data !!!
you might not be able to see original file names....

Diathorus · 06-23-2010, 09:41 PM #4

(06-23-2010, 08:55 PM)sNk Wrote: search for an file recovery programm on google....

you will find many interesting thing that you can try out....

http://www.google.de/#hl=de&q=file+recov...2f51805bc6

edit#1:
http://download.chip.eu/de/Pandora-Recov...38889.html

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

there are many of them.....

edit#2:
i have tried pandora recovery... found some old data !!!
you might not be able to see original file names....

!! I found Active@ File Recovery, and it's showing 60% of my files, including dumps! But I have to buy it to recover it... I won't pirate it!
Is there any free way to recover? :X

**Ocean** · 06-23-2010, 10:34 PM #5

Pandora is pretty good, it can read data rewritten or deleted even 2-3x over. But like sNk said you might just see files listed as "~file00001.iso" etc...
If you manage to recover anything just rename them, no big deal. I used it on an old 250gb hdd I had formatted ages ago and it still found about half of the old files that have been stored on it (although fragmented and not all were complete)

shortzi · 06-23-2010, 11:04 PM #6

Just remember, anything written to the drive now would overwrite anything previously there. So try not to use the drive, but only to recover.

Diathorus · (This post was last modified: 06-24-2010, 01:20 AM by Diathorus.)

(06-23-2010, 11:04 PM)shortzi Wrote: Just remember, anything written to the drive now would overwrite anything previously there. So try not to use the drive, but only to recover.

I am using it to recover to it...
So far I found all my screenshots, but slowly my files are getting overwritten, like 5 working dumps, and some important documents but most of them show as &^$*... and pictures won't show complete... damn it, I really want to punch the person in the face who made this external drive fck up my hd Angry

I had almost all dumps saved on desktop... yea now its overwritten...lol

**DacoTaco** · 06-24-2010, 01:20 AM #8

recuva is nice

not as good as active file recovery

kernel64 · (This post was last modified: 06-24-2010, 01:31 AM by kernel64.)

I've also recovered some lost files with Glary Undelete www.glarysoft.com/gun.html

Still, it's a very bad idea to use the same drive to recover your files, its like trying to do a brain surgery on oneself.

Diathorus · (This post was last modified: 06-24-2010, 01:43 AM by Diathorus.)

/facepalm...
I'm hungry and staring at the screen for 8 hours trying to recover...man
and tomorrow I gotta deliver some essay, most people say 'my pc has crashed' and teacher gets angry (teacher knows its made up), if teacher gets angry tomorrow I punch her in the face (and the dude in his car behind our house playing crappy reggae music isn't making it better)