accidently format Drive E ,

Kazi Jawad

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Hi Guys
well im using windows 8 and my hard drive is 120 gb each drive is 35gb in my laptop.
today i was double formatting my micro sd card of 2gb from computer management , disk managment , my whole attention was on tv while formatting , i accidently format my drive E where 30gb precious data of mine was save.. well at that moment i was litteraly shocked and i couldnt even move my body.. but then i searched some software i found i care data recovery free verstion 5.1 i installed it and run it . then i clicked on format recovery and select E drive even though it was now written as new volume .. well i clicked it to scan and i got same data which was deleted but with that data i found new folder as well . i save that file on Drive D because when im trying to save on E they were saying its the partitions source blah blah.. well i got all data on D drive but now when i clicked on my pictures then message come on windows photo viewer cant open this picture etc etc.. and no mp3 is playing . no videos are playing. its useless for me . im so poor in computer knowledge , so kindly answer me with steps and simple techniques ... thanks
the folder those are made after recovery is 1NTFS> $recyclbin , lost files 1 lost file 2 system volume information raw files, my data is in lost files 2 and there are also to unknown folders
 
Solution
Hi

First do not panic

If you formatted E: but have not written to E: since then there is a chance more data may be recovered by trying several format recovery programs

In most cases you loose the original file & folder names

free examples:-
CGsecurity.org TestDisk + Photorec (use photorecovery)
Piriform Recuva

there are many more programs some free some you pay for

Do not write anything to E:
(do not recover deleted files back to E:)


something a bit more expensive:-
Easy Recovery Pro by Ontrack
Recover My files by GetData pty

Or if data is very important go to a data recovery expert on a no win no fee contract
(expect cost several hundreds $)

Once you allow anything to write to E: your chances of recovering files go...
Hi

First do not panic

If you formatted E: but have not written to E: since then there is a chance more data may be recovered by trying several format recovery programs

In most cases you loose the original file & folder names

free examples:-
CGsecurity.org TestDisk + Photorec (use photorecovery)
Piriform Recuva

there are many more programs some free some you pay for

Do not write anything to E:
(do not recover deleted files back to E:)


something a bit more expensive:-
Easy Recovery Pro by Ontrack
Recover My files by GetData pty

Or if data is very important go to a data recovery expert on a no win no fee contract
(expect cost several hundreds $)

Once you allow anything to write to E: your chances of recovering files go down quickly

regards
Mike Barnes
 
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Kazi Jawad

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Apr 3, 2014
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well i think you guys didnt read whole situation of mine. im not worrying how to recover these files, i have recovered them already but the problem is that pictures music aur videos those i recovered are not playing and pictures are not showing up . wheneever i try to open pics , then windows photo viewer comes up this msg windows viewr cant open this pic. even though the format is jpg. and file is in good shape memory wise. now tell me how to open or playing these recover files thanks
 
Hi

If you can not read or view pictures or videos then they were not recovered fully
only part of file was recovered, probably the first part
(which has a file header indicating Jpeg picture , Word or Excel office document, avi video etc)

On hard disks the disk is accessed in multiples of sector size (of 512 bytes or 4096 bytes)

If the software recovers just the first part of the file you will not have the complete files so they either will be incomplete pictures or no pictures viewable
This happens if the file was fragmented on the hard disk (eg not a continuous block of sectors)

Most good recovery software gives an indication of whether the file is complete or not
often by colors green for complete, orange not sure and red incomplete

You may apparently recover hundreds of files but only a small number are complete

That is why I said try several recovery programs to see which ones give best results.

regards
Mike Barnes