Data Recovery from formatted drive

**TJB** · 30th November 2010

My PC died yesterday and as a result I decided to format my drive and re install windows. Anyway, half way through the install my PC died altogether. I've since discovered that there are a few bits and pieces on there I could do with recovering. I've used Easus data recovery software but it didn't find what I was looking for and I didn't find it particuarly user friendly. Any ideas what, if anything, is likely to be recovered from the drive and what the best software is to recover it with.

Cheers

Tel

**danthescan** · 30th November 2010

Good luck as formatting can usually give a reasonable chance of recovery,but you started an install which will have over written some if not all the files you want,but there are loads of tools to try.
Had good success with getback ntfs in the past,but google and try and find one that works.

**d3xt0r** · 30th November 2010

I've just used GetDataBack last week as Windows 7 Update killed my lappy.

There are portable versions so you dont have to install. NTFS or FAT. Found in the usual places