i just download recuva and it says " Recuva will prompt you for a location to place the recovered files. We strongly recommend you select another drive. This will help with the recovery process and avoid problems where Recuva can end up overwriting the file it's trying to recover. Note: If you want to restore files in their original folder structure, select the Recovery options first." excuse my ignorance but what should I do ? what location should I chose to place the recovered files. I don't have another computer nor a external usb. It Is just me and my laptop. please help!!
recovering file from a formatte disk
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gaborbarla
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Get a cheap USB drive (memorystick) and recover onto that. Also it would help if you told us what you did exactly, how you formatted your drive, how many drives you have and how come you still have windows working if you really formatted your disk.
Shaun o
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When you format a drive the information on it is still there.
The sectors of the drive are flagged as data can be written to them.
Recovery of the files can be done, as long as you have not attempted or written new information to the drive after a format.
You may be able to write all of the recovered HD Via a cd/ dvd drive of the laptop. But it will take up lot`s of disk`s if the program can span it across multiple dvd-r`s.
The sectors of the drive are flagged as data can be written to them.
Recovery of the files can be done, as long as you have not attempted or written new information to the drive after a format.
You may be able to write all of the recovered HD Via a cd/ dvd drive of the laptop. But it will take up lot`s of disk`s if the program can span it across multiple dvd-r`s.
I am sorry for not explaining more, I few days ago I accidently deleted some stuff on my new laptop with windows 8, it totally got screwed up and it would not let me restore to back date or refresh or anything it just said it was error 0cx000021a, and I found in microsoft the following STOP: 0xC000021A
Can be a difficult problem to solve and you may indeed need technical help from a real computer
shop (one that does its own in-house service) or the System Maker's Support.
so I gave to my sisters friend who is a technician, and I asked him to call me first before doing anything to it, because I did not want to lose my music. since I had another friend that told me that I had no problem in recovering my music before anyone would try to manipulate it, well the technician my sister sent it to just did the job without asking and (I don't know the exact procedure or terminology but now I have windows 8 again my sister said he reformatted the computer because windows was all screwed up), so I called my friend up to tell him tha I they had reinstalled windows or whatever, and he told me to use recuva, and that that was my only chance, but it did not work, and I have don't load two two other recovery softwares and nothing seems to work, I had like 180 hours of music and when I practice the scan for reformatted disk in recuba after the scan not even one mp3 track appears so I hope his is a could enough explaination please help I need my music. thaks
Can be a difficult problem to solve and you may indeed need technical help from a real computer
shop (one that does its own in-house service) or the System Maker's Support.
so I gave to my sisters friend who is a technician, and I asked him to call me first before doing anything to it, because I did not want to lose my music. since I had another friend that told me that I had no problem in recovering my music before anyone would try to manipulate it, well the technician my sister sent it to just did the job without asking and (I don't know the exact procedure or terminology but now I have windows 8 again my sister said he reformatted the computer because windows was all screwed up), so I called my friend up to tell him tha I they had reinstalled windows or whatever, and he told me to use recuva, and that that was my only chance, but it did not work, and I have don't load two two other recovery softwares and nothing seems to work, I had like 180 hours of music and when I practice the scan for reformatted disk in recuba after the scan not even one mp3 track appears so I hope his is a could enough explaination please help I need my music. thaks
I am sorry for not explaining more, I few days ago I accidently deleted some stuff on my new laptop with windows 8, it totally got screwed up and it would not let me restore to back date or refresh or anything it just said it was error 0cx000021a, and I found in microsoft the following STOP: 0xC000021A
Can be a difficult problem to solve and you may indeed need technical help from a real computer
shop (one that does its own in-house service) or the System Maker's Support.
so I gave to my sisters friend who is a technician, and I asked him to call me first before doing anything to it, because I did not want to lose my music. since I had another friend that told me that I had no problem in recovering my music before anyone would try to manipulate it, well the technician my sister sent it to just did the job without asking and (I don't know the exact procedure or terminology but now I have windows 8 again my sister said he reformatted the computer because windows was all screwed up), so I called my friend up to tell him tha I they had reinstalled windows or whatever, and he told me to use recuva, and that that was my only chance, but it did not work, and I have don't load two two other recovery softwares and nothing seems to work, I had like 180 hours of music and when I practice the scan for reformatted disk in recuba after the scan not even one mp3 track appears so I hope his is a could enough explaination please help I need my music. thaks, I have not placed or transferred anything after the scan, since I saw no mp3 I erased the resultof the scan,
Can be a difficult problem to solve and you may indeed need technical help from a real computer
shop (one that does its own in-house service) or the System Maker's Support.
so I gave to my sisters friend who is a technician, and I asked him to call me first before doing anything to it, because I did not want to lose my music. since I had another friend that told me that I had no problem in recovering my music before anyone would try to manipulate it, well the technician my sister sent it to just did the job without asking and (I don't know the exact procedure or terminology but now I have windows 8 again my sister said he reformatted the computer because windows was all screwed up), so I called my friend up to tell him tha I they had reinstalled windows or whatever, and he told me to use recuva, and that that was my only chance, but it did not work, and I have don't load two two other recovery softwares and nothing seems to work, I had like 180 hours of music and when I practice the scan for reformatted disk in recuba after the scan not even one mp3 track appears so I hope his is a could enough explaination please help I need my music. thaks, I have not placed or transferred anything after the scan, since I saw no mp3 I erased the resultof the scan,
gaborbarla
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Hi again, you can run recuva and see if it finds your music files.
You can do this without restoring or risking of overwriting the files themselves, just dont select the files and click restore.
If recuva cant find any of your music, then it means that your drive was formatted fully (not as quick format), or the new windows installed over the files and you cant recover your music. If recuva finds your files then you can recover onto an external drive or USB.
Remember that only the actual recovery process can damage your old files, searching won't. until you actually select the files that recuva found an click restore your drive should be safe.
Also, you should in any case get an external backup harddrive, I would recommend getting USB stick that can fit your music but if it is a lot then get a 2.5" USB 3 external Harddrive. It is a good idea to make a copy of your precious work and music.
Gabor
You can do this without restoring or risking of overwriting the files themselves, just dont select the files and click restore.
If recuva cant find any of your music, then it means that your drive was formatted fully (not as quick format), or the new windows installed over the files and you cant recover your music. If recuva finds your files then you can recover onto an external drive or USB.
Remember that only the actual recovery process can damage your old files, searching won't. until you actually select the files that recuva found an click restore your drive should be safe.
Also, you should in any case get an external backup harddrive, I would recommend getting USB stick that can fit your music but if it is a lot then get a 2.5" USB 3 external Harddrive. It is a good idea to make a copy of your precious work and music.
Gabor
Cissybro532
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OK! I really want to share my ideas with your guys here.
When someone formats the drive, the inner contained data is not erased as we normally think. It is only marked as "free space" so that anything new would be saved there. Therefore, with the help of data recovery software, one could always restore his data back as long as the new data is not overwritten it.
Since the original data is still there, it would make everything messed up and cause data loss, if you save the restored data on the same drive. So, that's why you need another drive or storage device to place your retrieved data.
So, in your case, if you really don't know how to go on with this Recuva, you could try to use other drive data recovery freeware online. Just search one over the internet and select another storage device to copy all your retrieved data.
Here is a free drive data recovery program for you:
formatrecovery.blogspot.com/2013/02/recover-data-after-formatting.html
Note: In the future, you should never forget to back up all important data at least on two hard drives before the formatting.
When someone formats the drive, the inner contained data is not erased as we normally think. It is only marked as "free space" so that anything new would be saved there. Therefore, with the help of data recovery software, one could always restore his data back as long as the new data is not overwritten it.
Since the original data is still there, it would make everything messed up and cause data loss, if you save the restored data on the same drive. So, that's why you need another drive or storage device to place your retrieved data.
So, in your case, if you really don't know how to go on with this Recuva, you could try to use other drive data recovery freeware online. Just search one over the internet and select another storage device to copy all your retrieved data.
Here is a free drive data recovery program for you:
formatrecovery.blogspot.com/2013/02/recover-data-after-formatting.html
Note: In the future, you should never forget to back up all important data at least on two hard drives before the formatting.
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