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Can I ask if/how this can be done...

I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
are some tools that can recover the files...

Surely a reformat trashes all data?

If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.

On 24 Dec 2003 13:47:04 -0800, (ekimjroberts)
wrote:

>Can I ask if/how this can be done...
>
>I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
>are some tools that can recover the files...
>
>Surely a reformat trashes all data?
>
>If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.

Howdy,

No expert I, but I believe that once you have formatted the drive, all
is lost...

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"ekimjroberts" <> wrote in message
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> Can I ask if/how this can be done...
>
> I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
> are some tools that can recover the files...
>
> Surely a reformat trashes all data?
>
> If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.


If you've formatted a drive (fat or fat32) Norton utilites has an unformat
utility that you can run from a bootdisk.

If you've made no attempt to write to the drive or otherwise try to recover
data... it will do a good job of restoring all (or most) of your data.

I gave it a try once just to see what happens and all files were
recovered...
but all folder names were just given generic names...
so basically it won;t restore your copy of windows...but at least it will
get all the data back

Google it there are Plenty of ways to get files back . The less you use
the drive the more chance of recovering files

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...+recover+files
"ekimjroberts" <> wrote in message
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> Can I ask if/how this can be done...
>
> I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
> are some tools that can recover the files...
>
> Surely a reformat trashes all data?
>
> If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.
>


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ekimjroberts wrote in
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> Can I ask if/how this can be done...
>
> I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
> are some tools that can recover the files...
>
> Surely a reformat trashes all data?
>
> If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.
>

All is not lost but it will cost you to recover the data. You can try
using Google to search for file recovery utilities or contact a
professional service if the data is valuable enough that you want to make
sure its recovered.

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On 24 Dec 2003 13:47:04 -0800, (ekimjroberts) wrote:

|> Can I ask if/how this can be done...
|>
|> I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
|> are some tools that can recover the files...
|>
|> Surely a reformat trashes all data?
|>
|> If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.

dos up to 6.x, Win98 and ME, have an unformat function as long as the format
switch /U (unrecoverable) isn't used.

From format.com Win98:
There is not enough room to create a restore file.
You will not be able to use the UNFORMAT utility.
Proceed with Format

It's an undocumented function and I've never unformatted a disk.

Of course there's a limit of how much new stuff was added before it's worthless.

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Check
www.ontrack.com

Formating a dsik all it does it's erases the MBR (Master boot Record) but the
data it's intact.
Now if instead of formating you do a "Write all zeros" you'r f...




On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:50:49 -0800, M Mullen <> wrote:

>On 24 Dec 2003 13:47:04 -0800, (ekimjroberts) wrote:
>
>|> Can I ask if/how this can be done...
>|>
>|> I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
>|> are some tools that can recover the files...
>|>
>|> Surely a reformat trashes all data?
>|>
>|> If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.
>
>dos up to 6.x, Win98 and ME, have an unformat function as long as the format
>switch /U (unrecoverable) isn't used.
>
>From format.com Win98:
>There is not enough room to create a restore file.
>You will not be able to use the UNFORMAT utility.
>Proceed with Format
>
>It's an undocumented function and I've never unformatted a disk.
>
>Of course there's a limit of how much new stuff was added before it's worthless.

Sorry, I wanted to say that formating erases the FAT (File alocation table) that
tells the system were all the files and files segments are stored but the data
it's intact.
Now I asume we are talking about high-level format, the type of format that most
users execute. In addition, hard disks have a low-level format, which sets
certain properties of the disk such as the interleave factor. The low-level
format also determines what type of disk controller can access the disk so a
low-level format completely rearenges the disk, in this case the data as it was
stored it's gone forever.

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 05:37:56 GMT, cabinboy <> wrote:

>Check
>www.ontrack.com
>
>Formating a dsik all it does it's erases the MBR (Master boot Record) but the
>data it's intact.
>Now if instead of formating you do a "Write all zeros" you'r f...
>
>
>
>
>On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:50:49 -0800, M Mullen <> wrote:
>
>>On 24 Dec 2003 13:47:04 -0800, (ekimjroberts) wrote:
>>
>>|> Can I ask if/how this can be done...
>>|>
>>|> I was told that if I had to reformat my pc due to a boot crash, there
>>|> are some tools that can recover the files...
>>|>
>>|> Surely a reformat trashes all data?
>>|>
>>|> If it is possible - what can you recommend as a good utility.
>>
>>dos up to 6.x, Win98 and ME, have an unformat function as long as the format
>>switch /U (unrecoverable) isn't used.
>>
>>From format.com Win98:
>>There is not enough room to create a restore file.
>>You will not be able to use the UNFORMAT utility.
>>Proceed with Format
>>
>>It's an undocumented function and I've never unformatted a disk.
>>
>>Of course there's a limit of how much new stuff was added before it's worthless.