HDD Data loss - please help!!

[Laksen]

Hey, my windows went full retard, so I had to format the drive, I formatted both of of my drives by a mistake, I had all of my data on one disk and I have not used this disk for the new install of windows, is there any way to recover the data on that disk? I have some important school documents needed for the upcoming exams please help me out :-)!!

[SubTract]

did you a quick format? If so you might be able to get some stuff back with some recovery software there is loads out there. Here is a list of software from CNET.

[Chemical]

You may also try the below.

http://www.ptdd.com/rpt.htm

Essitially what you want to do is try to rebuild the partition. I assume you did a normal format and thus the hdd was not reset to "0's" therefore all the information should still be there since you didn't write over it.

Good Luck.

[baxter.rs]

That's why you backup important documents on a external drive, or a cloud drive, sky drive... millions of friken solutions to prevent losing data from disk failures and mistakes like that... -.-

[Laksen]

I did a proper format with all 0's, yes I am stupid but I made a big mistake by formatting the wrong HDD :-(

[Chemical]

I did a proper format with all 0's, yes I am stupid but I made a big mistake by formatting the wrong HDD :-(

Try some programs and see what you can find, you never know.

[Laksen]

I have already tried 3 different programs and I only found the partition name files. On the bright side i found an 8 month old backup of the files :-)