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getochkn   10-05-2009 at 07:14:55 AM

I have a customer who has an HP computer with the built in recovery. Well he ran it and it reinstalled windows but it did a format first obviously and it wiped out all his documents, music, etc. He didn't install anything after the recovery, so I assume most of the data should still be there. What would be the best software to run to try and recover the data. I know some of it was probably overwritten with the new Windows install, but at this point I think he'd take 80 or 90% of it. There was over 200GB of stuff there on a 500GB drive and the new windows only takes about 8GB, so the odds that most of it is still there somewhere is good, I just don't know what tool to use. He has vista on his machine.

Any help would be appreciated.


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fowang   10-05-2009 at 11:39:52 AM

Find some sort of file recovery program on the internet there are loads out there tbh, ie norton

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getochkn   10-06-2009 at 01:55:55 AM

I figured I would need some sort of recovery software, I was looking for suggestions for something freeware that works good with Vista.

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fowang   10-06-2009 at 04:34:28 PM

hmmm freeware for vista is a bit crap, pay the extra and get somthing that will recover alot more.

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