File recovery after formatting

Hi

You could try this app http://www.majorgeeks.com/Ultimate_Data_Recovery_d5336.html although you may not have sucess with all files as some in the reformat may have been overwritten by new data and those will be sadly gone.

 

People have had good results with this
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

If the pictures were not on a hard drive but rather on something like an SD card, etc. then this might be what she wants to try
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/smart_recovery/info.htm?language=1

 

Hi

Ok I tried this on my Vista pc *XP is not really different* for being able to recover off the C: drive, it works ok, but remember to login as Admin if the Windows version is XP or Vista ( if another Windows version please tell us what one )

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Recuva_-_File_Recovery_d5514.html

You will if it finds deleted files, notice that in the main window of the files it finds it will give you the status of these files as in Excellent, Poor, Unrecoverable etc

Also do not when hitting Recover choose the C: drive to recover the files back to, choose another device such as another internal HD, CDRW or preferably USB Pen or USB External HD, if you do you run the risk of further overwriting the very files your trying to recover.



PC Inspector

This is exactly the same as Recuva, do not restore the files to the C: Drive, the step to take are again make sure your logged in as Admin on Xp/Vista etc ( note for Vista, you will need to right click the programs shortcut and run as Admin, or it wont pickup the drives correctly )

Once run, click your Language > click the + Bin icon to find lost data > it should scan all your drives and in the Logical Drive tab click Fixed Disk #1 > click the green tick and the application will scan for deleted or recoverable files, a long list of files will appear ( if anything is recoverable ) green is good change yellow not so good.

Highlight all the files and folders or the ones with names you wish to recover, to highlight all just left click mouse in the recovered files window adn drag a box over all to highlight / to recover certain ones hold CTRL key down and click the ones you want, then on one highlighted file right click and choose Save to, and choose a location again not the C: Drive.




Note: these may or may not recover all files even if the recovery status of them is good.