retrieve data from damage Harddisk.

[saeed]

I was installing Lindows OS on my home machine, as I was new to it, and didnt know anything about this OS. It has deleted all the partitiions now. I wanna know that is there any possibility for retrieve data from damage harddisk. I had loose round about 12 G.B data which includes my web design work, web development projects, and other softwares which I had download from diffrent websites.. including Kazaa. please let me know

Saeed.

[jkd]

Have you written new stuff onto the hard drive since repartitioning? Wherever you didn't write you can retrieve the information with various programs.

Technically, I believe you can retrieve information overwritten something like 5 times via software , and beyond that (up to around 10 times) there are expensive, hardware extraction methods.

The data is still there, but it is a matter of exactly how easily accessible. There are various Windows-based tools I've used to recover information... Drive Rescue comes to mind.

[saeed]

Please let me know, some of the softwares link.. which can be downloaded freely from net.

and yeah, thankx a lot man.

[x_goose_x]

First things first, stop using the hard drive. Any new temporary files or virtual memory being used can potentially overwrite important data. Install on another hard drive then search for file fragments. Try http://www.downloads.com and search for recovery software. I've used a few, but only with win98 (FAT32), so I can't really suggest any software.

[saeed]

thankx for your suggesstion man, well I was using "rec4all" software for recovering your data, I got it from Kazaa. One of my friend told me that it will not work when a Hard Disk has lost it partitions. anyways , I will always recommened you that not to use any Operating System when you are not fimiliar with it.

[Wichetael]

You might to take a look at some of these programs:

http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/sy...recovery.shtml