ericcumbee

Tonight i reformatted my laptop, and to make a ghost image of the clean install i ran the dell diagnostic program to put there diagnostic programs that include ghost on a jumpdrive. to do that it had to format the jumpdrive, apparently it assumed the first removable device was the jumpdrive when it was really my external harddrive. when i saw what it was doing i unpluged it, when i pluged it back in it said the device format was RAW, does anyone know if there is any way to recover these files. My entire life for the last 3 years is on that hard drive, photos, video, every document i have created or used during my 2 year college carrer.

nomadmatt

yes there are some programs out there.
i am on the pda right now so i dont have likes.
i would try google "free file recovery"

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Howard2k

I'd be very very careful messing around with any of the dodgy free stuff. If the data is that important I'd just take it straight to a data recovery specialist. It'll cost a few $ but the chances are higher.

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mk365

I would recommend against trying to do it yourself. Everytime you boot the laptop you could be making it worse. Every program you install overwrites data. There are several data recovery companies out there. They are expensive, but could probabley recover much of your data. PM me and I can give you some suggestions.

ericcumbee

it is on a external hard drive recover my files is running right now and finding stuff i think i am going to buy that. reformatting my laptop wasnt the problem,it was the fact that the stupid dell usb diagnostic flashdrive maker didnt prompt me which disk to use.

the most important things to me right now are recovering my picutres and video, and my school work, if it cant find my onenote notebooks i am in deep trouble. the software that i have stored isnt as much worry to me, i copied alot of my software like office and windows to the harddrive from cds and left the CDs at home, luckly when i go to valdosta i will be passing through douglas and my parents are going to bring my Case of Software CDs so i can reload office and onenote.

reese

O & O recovery is a wonderful tool, check your PM's