Re: help for awful case(data recovery)

On Fri, 18 May 2007 10:53:12 -0700, isaac2004 wrote:

On May 18, 5:35 am, Ohmster <nowa...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
isaac2004 <isaac_2...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:1179472694.737326.247800
@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

ok, i have a special case, and i am hoping that anybody out there can
help me. i have a vista partition that i have been using for awhile.
i have been interested in linux for some time now. i bought a 40 gig
drive and installed fedora on it. when i went to check out my dual
boot, it went straight into fedora. i eventually found out that i
formatted over the windows partition and installed linus on it. i
tried running trinity rescue kit on it but im a newbie and i got
nowhere. my question is, is there anyway to get the files off the old
windows drive, without buying 200 dollar software. i a posting this
on this board because you guys are more familiar with dealing with
linux partitions. so in summary i have alot of important data on a
ntfs drive that got formatted into a linus drive. thank you to
anybody that can help me with this problem

Dude you are toast. Once you re-format a drive and then write to and
use another OS on it, the underlaying files are pretty much gone. The
cops might be able to pull bits and snippets of files off of it if you
kill someone, maybe just enough of a text file or email to get you
found guilty, but for recovering binary files like programs, video,
audio, & picture files, you are screwed. It would cost way over $200 to
get any of that back and what you get would not be worth it. Time to
move on....

so i have no chance the, its not even worth a try to get that stuff iff

The only possible chance you have of recovering any of the data would be
to send the drive off to a recovery service that can tear the drive apart
and salvage whatever is not destroyed.

The data in question would have to be worth at least $8000 to you to even
consider that option.


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