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specifically one that will recover data from a newly formatted drive.

I’m currently looking at EASEUS, but would be grateful for any suggestions

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HI japes

get data back for ntfs is pretty good, I’ve used it before and had some success on formatted drives. GetDataBack — Data Recovery Software For Crashed Hard Drives

good luck…

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GetDataBack has worked well for me too. I’ve also had luck with R-studio. Neither is free, but they’re also pretty cheap, all things considered.

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Hello,

Scavenger is good…

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Testdisk works for me Partition Recovery and File Undelete

and it’s free

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Rule #1: Don’t touch the live disk any more than you have to!

I would boot from a live CD, dd that entire disk out to a bit-for-bit image and run the recovery on the image, or a copy of the image.

See here for how to mount an NTFS drive image as a mount point: Ubuntu Forums

And the Trinity Recovery Kit is extremely useful for this type of recovery.

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Shane5199 wrote:

Testdisk works for me Partition Recovery and File Undelete

and it’s free

Testdisk if you want free and OnTrack if your willing to pay. OnTrack will do RAW recovery so if it’s their it can recover it.

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Hi Guys

Sorry for the delay getting back in touch - been away for a while.

Anyway, I used a piece of software called winundelete to restore the data from it’s original placement - very complicated story, which I won’t bore you all with, but see synopsis below.

Many thanks for all thesuggestions. I’m going to deliberately recreate the scenario and try a few of them out. Be really handy to have a decent tool in the armoury. Thought I had all user oddities covered, but never even thought of this one:

User : “Hi, I’ve done something stupid*… I moved all my stuff to a new drive - then I formatted the new drive. Can you get my stuff back…?”

Me: “?”

  • no, really!?