Formatted Drive - Recover Files??

[donal2000]

Hi All,

I recently swapped over a user PC and made a bad move in quickly wiping the machine and re-loading Win2000 on the PC

There are some files in my documents and some Notes NSF files that I need to recover. I just did a standard Win2000 install on the disk and deleted the partition and let Windows format the drive.

I downloaded a trial version of Recover My Files which is now running and have set it to search for .xls, .doc and .nsf (Lotus Notes) files to which it has found numerous at this stage. MS Office and Notes have not been loaded on this PC since the rebuild so I'm hoping the files that it has picked up in the scan are the files I'm looking to retrieve.

The scan is still running and I would imagine will take most of the weekend.

How good a chance do you think I have in recovering the files in this scenario using Recover My Files?? If the scan is successful I intend to purchase the full version.

Cheers in advance
Donal

[GDH]

Click on the files found in the results screen and you can preview their conent. You can even do this while the search is in progress.

You will soon be able to work out if Recover My Files is working and finding your data.

I suggest you should try both a "Complete Format Recover" of the new drive letter for the default selected file types... and after this a "Complete File Search" for specific file types. They use two different search techniques.