i was wondering if anyone has full versions of any program's that would help recover my information? there is nothing on seek after 30 min of looking. i have looked at some free ones that i down loaded but they have limits on there file size or you can save your files and the other ones cost like 30$ or more.... either way i was wondering if anyone has any good advice or a full version i could borrow.

spikes

thanx

Um, filesystem, size, amount of lost data, you know, little things that might be helpful to know?

well its a mixture of stuff i have videos like band of brothers on there that are like 600mb each other avi mpg and other video files, pictures of family around 20mb jpg bmp and a few others, to text files and c++ programs. i have a lot of files that i did not want to lose like all my codecs, drivers, game mods and shit loads more that you just cant find any more.

its on a usb 2.0 80gig hard drive and its about almost full, i have space for it on other hardrives and i dont care how long it takes i just want it back

and i am not touching it till i get a shit load more information

Short anwser is you're probably hosed. What did you format it with? FAT32? NTFS? Scratch that, *why* did you format it?

i think it had fat 32 on it and i think i just reformated it with fat 32 over it.... its been a fucked up week and to make a long story shot i was fixing windows b/c one of my fucking system files went bye bye and had to format my hard drives but i forgot to unpug my usb one so i kinda too that one by mistake i think some of the $60 programs might work and im willing to pay that for this information its just i would like it for free first


still if anyone has any programs on seek or know any that they would recomend me checking out, also could you list them and your rating on them or what you used them for....

Have you used anything to try to get it back. Did you try getdataback, Norton? or any other regular data recovery tool. When you did your format on your USB drive was a quick format or a regular one? How much have you written to the drive sense the last format.
If you did a quick format, and formatted the drive to the same (or similar size) getdataback should get most of you files for you.

(FYI you do not need to format your hard drive when your system files go bad in fat32. In my opinion you really never need to format your drive unless you are specifically wishing to change your file system from one thing to another. But that does not help you much now)

no i have not touched it and i will not untill im shure somthing will work... i usaly have keeped my hd defraged and neat ill look in to getback ^.^ thanx

if anyone else has anyother ideas or programs i dont mind looking in to them

^.^ thanx

r-studio something or other has worked for me in the past.

Recently Jube's harddrive bit the dust and he used some program to recover data. Whatever it was he used, he got back stuff he had formatted over multiple times. He's out of town this weekend but I'll ask him when he gets back.

thanx well now everyone is back to rolla i was wondering if anyone has any programs on there comps that they could share with me

well all the programs that i found, like over 25 or so can not download anything more than 64k files... if i was going to buy one what would any one recomend?

spikes

Just wondering if you found a solution yet?

I've had similar troubles recently, in the past I've used a program called "Easy Recovery Professional" made by "OnTrack". I've had mixed results it will recover any file that's ever been on that drive...only problem is that sometimes the files it recovers aren't usable. Anywho...good luck.

no i still have not touched my hard drive and i think i will try somthing this weekend so wish me luck