Data Recovery Forums - Help & Discussions

german · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

Dear folks,

I really need your help. One of the three IDE hard drives installed on my P4 Dell desktop machine (Win XP Pro) turned totally "gibberish". Nothing readable - some recent very important files were not backed up.
Unfortunately, I don't remember the precise moment it happened but I do note here that around that time three things happened. i) I tried to replace this disk with a new one (Maxtor 250G), which turned out to be out of order. ii) my PC was infected with a couple of viruses. iii) I updated BIOS on my motherboard since I assumed that it will let the system read the new 250GB disk.

I have copied the whole partition to a brand new working hard drive but it looks on it precisely the same.

I appreciate any help.
German

Niel · Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 20

Hi,

Firstly don't use the drive from which you have lost data, there is chance of overwriting the data making the chance of recovery very rare,

Secondly what I will suggest is that you should install the Operating system on your new 250 GB drive, then install any good data recovery software on your new OS or you can install recovery software on any other computer and plug your IDE drive with data to that computer.

Scan for data using the recovery software and you will get your data back. I will recommend Geeksnerds Windows Data Recovery

Hope that you will get your data back.

german · Joined: 27 Dec 2008 Posts: 2

thanks,

will try...

sapna_goel · Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 16

Hii,

You can also try Kernel for Windows, a professional and result oriented software for windows recovery.

See yourself the efficiency of the software by downloading it..

May God help you!!!!