Help with recovering lost data from re-booted laptop.

Hi.

I've seen so many posts claiming to recover lost data etc..Can you help me?
My Toshiba laptop crashed a few weeks ago taking with it months of digital photos and a book i was writing..

I had to re boot using the Toshiba cd and was told i have now lost all mentioned above. Is this true? is there still hope in recovering any of it?

Please help anyone, i'm rubbish at all the tech stuff....

 

It would be unfair of me to give you false hope but there may be a chance to recover SOME of the lost data with this.
http://majorgeeks.com/Recuva_-_File_Recovery_d5514.html

 

Hi.
Thankyou for replying...false hope is better than sitting here with no hope? From the page you have directed me to, which one do i use? (sorry to be a complete idiot).

 

If you click on any of the major geek sites it will start to download.

 

Hi again BB.

I've got a feeling this is Pareto Logic data recovery. I did try this, it gave me a few files that didn't look too familiar but i decided to recover them anyway and was asked for a liscencing key and then asked to pay...needless to say i didn't continue.
Thanks again
Jan

 

The application i gave you is free.
When you run it you get a list with colored dots on the left hand side if the dot is red the file is un-recoverable if it is orange it is not fully recoverable but if it is green the file is fully recoverable.

 

Hi BB.

I downloaded and tried the Recuva. A good tool but unfortunately it only recovered recently deleted files and not the data i lost from my hard drive when my PC crashed.
Thankyou again for atleast coming forward to assist!

Jan

 

The only other thing i can suggest is that you take your laptop to a repair dealer who hopefully has a copy of FBI ( it's not freely available)and see if they can recover some of your data

 

Hi.

Yes i would say that my pc is now in a state as newly bought. Strange thing is though, i found a website called Diskinternals and used their 'preview' to see if it would recover anything..well it did!
Obviously they're not gonna give me all my files back for free and are asking a huge amount of money but i'm pleased to know they are still there somewhere!!?

So, what do you think?
All the free recovery data websites just seem to find all the crap i intentionaly deleted not the data deep within!

Jan

 

yes there is chance to recover your date, try to use getdataback... you need bought this software...

 

your data I mean