Recovering data........

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LiengLiengZA

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My brother went last night and tried to do a fresh install of windows xp on his PC.Now he's got a 80gb HDD and 320gb HDD.All his music,vidz and pics were on the 320gb.When he got the screen asking which partition he must delete and what drive to format he accidentally chose the 320gb.It started to format at 2% and then he switched off his PC.When he restarted windows showed the drive as RAW.Now my question is can he recover the data or is it gone forever?
 
Should be able to recover most of it. Use Ontrack EasyRecovery Professional.

Remember to NEVER recover to the same drive! Always recover to a different drive!
 
altough he deleted the partition he can still get some of his data back?cause someone told me that if delete the partition you cannot recover.
 
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I've used TestDisk ( http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk ) to successfully recover all the data off a deleted partition. I wasn't silly enough to actually begin formatting the drive though!

If you try testDisk then follow the documentation very very carefully. But, on the other hand, you've got nothing to lose. It can take a few hours to work and then you might have to run it again to recover files.

Recovery of files is done on the same drive - it rebuilds the partition and the mft (master file table.)
 
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I can't help you with more recovery program choices. TestDisk is free and, most importantly, it worked. Your easiest option though, as always, is to just claim it is impossible and walk away all the while mumbling about backups and how people should take these things seriously.
 
I think raw mode is a bit extreme, should only really be used after the deleted or formatting modes does not give any results.

After the recovery has run you will be presented with a window that has a disk/directory layout on the left with tick boxes, tick the root folder or the individual folders you want to recover and click on next where it will ask you for a destination drive to save the files to.
 
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First try FormatRecovery before RawRecovery as raw recovey does not always preserve the file names. But check anyway what files/directories RawRecovery lists if you have already done it as it will save time.
 
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I got better results from R-Studio than from EasyRecovery. The UI is also WAY better...
 
Tell your brother to do a FormatRecovery, select the previous file system type, NTFS, FAT etc.

After the filescan is completed this screen appears.
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Next select the files/directories he wants to recover.
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