Recovery software ?

[dragoncurt]

Hi guys it was a few months ago I had formatted my external hd on accident and as I know I should have had a backup. I did not .  

 

Does anyone know which is a very good software for getting as much things as I can recovered. Either a paid software or free. 

 

Thanks

 

I have not touched the hard drive since as I was trying to find which is the best software to recover it so it should still get somethings back.

 

It was a 3TB external hd but only around 1TB had been used.

 

 

 

[EvilLemur]

there are tons of software you can use i always tell people to use recuvera or easeus

 

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/download.htm

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

 

just remember you need a seperate drive to write to that is bogger than the data you will write

 

[dragoncurt]

Just now, EvilLemur said:

there are tons of software you can use i always tell people to use recuvera or easeus

 

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/download.htm

https://www.piriform.com/recuva

 

just remember you need a seperate drive to write to that is bogger than the data you will write

 

 

Oh okay then. Thank you very much.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Another vote for Recuva.  Let it do a deep scan (which will take a loooooong time) and be sure to recover to another HDD. 

We really can't stress that last bit enough.  If you recover to the HDD that the files were on, you run the risk of accidentally overwriting a file that still needed to be recovered, making it unrecoverable. 

[TonyStark]

Also keep in mind this. When a drive is formatted only the TOC (Table Of Contents) is actually deleted (its like having a book and rip off the index pages) because the system uses the TOC to move to the file(s) to read/write. So unless you perform a low-level format (very uncommon nowadays) that can permanently erase the files and not only the index (warning unintentional side effects in case of a LF failure include : rage all caps, physics test of applying 10 tons of pressure to your PC and/or nuclear fission) then most of the recovery software can recover your files.

However this cannot be always true. Assume that you have formatted your drive (normal format) about 7-10 times, then only the latest files will be available that's because you don't know (and don't have a way to know...at least yet) the position on the disk that the drive writes exactly. So a possible overwrite chance exists.

In general once you have lost the data on a drive you do not operate on it and you do not write files to it unless you recover it first.