Hello my all friends,

Here on this forum I would like to get help for my best friend, my best friend lost her brother before 15 days in Truck Accident, we have only voice of that brother saved in c drive, but before accident we have formatted c drive to install windows again, does there is any way to recover that voice file ?

Please help me to get that voice because we dont have any pictuer of that child who was only 3 years old.

Thanks

Theres a few unformat tools around, none of them are 100% reliable, the most important thing is to make sure that you have as little writing activity as possible on that drive. When formatting you don't actually loose the data, your harddrive tells teh allocation table that "this space is empty and can be written to". the more data you put on the drive, the more likely you are to overwrite the spots where these files are stored. Norton utilities has a unerase/unformat utility (not free), as long as you're not using the drive, time isn't really critical usually, hope this helps in some sense or another.

I am sorry to hear of the sudden loss of your friends child.

If you do use any utility to recover the file(s), do NOT run those utilities from the drive you are trying to recover the file from. For example, if the file is on drive C:, run the utility from a different drive. Good luck on retrieving the file.

I saw unerase wizard in Norton Utilities
Its tell that unerase wizard can find and recover many deleted files, ever if they are not in recycle bin.

then its giving 2 options,
one for find all protected files on local drives
2nd find any recoverable file matching your criteria.

Please tell me that am i using correct utility, and how i can use it,
I dont know exactly file name because that was not important before this accident, but now its very important for us, I hope you will understand me.

I am still looking for a Genius person to solve my problem, does its possible or not, I saw here lot of genius persons but where is all genius now :bawling:

I am not sure how well Norton works for recoverying lost files. I use Symantec products all the time but I haven't used that feature. My company uses a much more expensive data recovery utility. The one we use has helped us to recover data at a success rate of more than 90%. My suggestion is to run a search using Google or the like for Data Recovery software. Some of the programs available have demos that will tell you if you can recover the file(s) or not. If you are able to see the file through those demos, then you need to purchase the program to actually be able to retrieve the file(s). At least then you will see if the file is recoverable or not prior to spending the money on an expensive, one-use, recovery tool.

Just remember, any demos or programs you use, run from a different drive. Do not install them on the same drive you are trying to recover the file(s) from.

Good luck...

there's a company that specialises in something like this.. just can't remember the name. Hope it will come to me soon.

I would definitely unplug the drive until you figure out what to do.

I might try using dd to clone the drive before you try anything. That way you can work on a duplicate instead of the original.

It depends on how much money you want to spend, though. I would send the duplicate off to a data recovery place.

One of the more famous is drivesavers.com

I might live in a high tech town, but we have data recovery places listed in the yellow pages.