Recover lost files.

[Williams_matt22]

Hi. I accidently formatted and installed a new version of windows on top of the wrong hard drive.

I need to recover the files lost, particularly my pictures and music. Ive run the program but the computer just reboots about 20 minutes in and around 40,000 files found. I am previewing a lot of old pictures etc. Ive formatted and re-installed windows twice now on what im using as the primary hardrive. thinking it might be something else but it seems to only restart during a scan. It's only a 40gb hardrive needing recovering (using as slave). Help please! Thanks.

The Hard drive itself seems to be fine. It's not to warm and I have re-formatted it twice since this reboot problem.

Another note- Automatic Reset under> System Failure was unchecked when I just had a look???

[GDH]

mmm - hard to say what is causing the reboot - could be a very corrupt sector on the drive that is causing Windows to bomb out (data recovery tools scan all sectors).

Try following these instructions, but STOP the search before you get to the problem part, and note down where the search is up to in the progress window:

http://forums.getdata.com/computer-d...ard-drive.html

Then run the search again, but this time, first go to OPTIONS > ADVANCED > and put a tick in "prompt for start cluster".

When you run the search on the physical drive again, you will be prompted for a starting location. The idea is to enter a starting point just past the bad sector so you can continue to scan the rest of the drive.

Good luck.

[Williams_matt22]

This time it restarted a few minutes before that ~20 minute mark?? Do you think maybe getting a box for the harddrive and connecting it through the USB externaly might help??

[Williams_matt22]

Okay did another scan. Stopped it at (2720) (31954). Which was before it usually reboots the comp. It said it would continue with the scan, then a second later the computer rebooted?? So within a few seconds of pressing stop, it rebooted.

[GDH]

Start the search after the problem spot and see what results you get.

[Williams_matt22]

Okay. So this time I started the scan just before it rebooted last time
(6309874)...It went for about 17 minutes and got up to around 20000000when it rebooted.

I restarted the scan at 20000000 and then it rebooted at 23000000 after taking a while to get there. It would seem it doesnt restart at a patricular time. It's random and after around 14-20 minutes of scanning. Im using an older computer for this recovery. Celeron equivalent of Pentium 2. However i had the same problem using a Pentium 4 before i switched hardrives over to the pentium 2.

When it is scanning, im seeing my files show up and can preview most of them....

Cheers for the help!

[GDH]

What version of RMF are you running?

Please make sure you have the latest here: http://download.getdata.com/RecoverMyFiles-Setup.exe

Stop the search before the reboot and let me know if you can find and save files.

[Williams_matt22]

Its the latest version. I have tried 3 times now to stop the search and save. A few seconds after I press stop, it restarts. I can save if the search only goes, for example 2 minutes. However If I press stop and try to save after the 10 minute mark it will reboot the comp.