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Subject:Re: How Do I Recover my old stuff From:Jan Cohen <najnehoc -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:Technical Writing Plus <doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Sun, 4 Apr 2010 17:46:59 -0700 (PDT)
The ability to recover data from a formatted drive is dependent on the level of format that was performed. If you performed a quick or full format, both of which are high-level formats, your data isn't permanently lost unless you've overwritten it since the format was done. On the other hand, if a Low-Level (physical) format was performed, your data is probably gone for good. Chances are though that since the format occurred somewhat inadvertantly, a Low-Level format didn't occur.
Try Googling "data recovery software" for one or more lists of apps that you can download and use yourself.
Good luck,
Jan C.
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Technical Writing Plus
<doc-x -at- earthlink -dot- net>wrote:
> On Friday I had a problem with my PC (Win XP Pro, NTFS, Pentium 4
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> HD and started up a new instance of the OS.
>
> I thought that I was being careful not to do this, but it happened anyeay.
> Is there a way for me to recover my old system and all of its files and
> programs?
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