WaldMeister Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Hi, So, i figured i would install OSX on the notebook of my GF. As usual i made the backups before trying to do anything. Well, the installation was not really a success, so i went back to installing Windows on the machine. I wanted to restore the backup from my pc, guess what, somehow the data is gone, or has never been copied. I have no idea what went wrong, but it comes down to this, i have to restore the data from her HDD. I have it connected through USB right now, already found some files, but i'm looking for software that also restores the filenames etc, if possible. Currently i'm using Disk Drill. The drive has been repartitioned 4 times, has been formatted even more, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. The system i use to restore the data is in my sig. Thank you. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286491-data-recovery-software/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Try this one. I have had to recover an accidentally formatted drive. Though it wasn't 100% successful recovery, but most files were recovered. It may take SOME time for the process to finish. So be patient, as recovery has always been time consuming. You have greater chances of success if: the drive you try to recover was not erased securely (write zeros) the drive you try to recover was not overwritten by data/OS 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286491-data-recovery-software/#findComment-1890221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaldMeister Posted February 18, 2013 Author Share Posted February 18, 2013 Thank you, will try it definitly. Well, i have substained damage, since i have installed 3 operating systems since then, even switched from mbr to guid and such. But i get the point. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286491-data-recovery-software/#findComment-1890222 Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.14r2 Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Good luck! :wink2: Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286491-data-recovery-software/#findComment-1890227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRSR333 Posted February 20, 2013 Share Posted February 20, 2013 You might also want to try TestDisk... Worked very well for me when I accidentally formatted away the Windows partition on my hard drive. 1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286491-data-recovery-software/#findComment-1890750 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gringo Vermelho Posted February 21, 2013 Share Posted February 21, 2013 Seconded. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/286491-data-recovery-software/#findComment-1890850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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