Data Recovery tools

captain_twinkie · Post by **captain_twinkie** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:07 am

A friend of my moms accidently did a factory image restore on her system, and she needs to get some of the data off from before image restore, do any of you have any recomendations of data recovery tools?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:29 am

Get Data Back NTFS
Accronis has many tools

I've used the first one many times.

Remember, don't restore the files to the same drive.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 1:28 pm

is it even possible? dont image restore tools format the drive first?

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:09 pm

They usually wipe the file table but leave most of the data (the stuff that was NOT overwritten) intact.

AceCombat · Post by **AceCombat** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 2:56 pm

ahhh didnt know that.... TY AD

rcll · Post by **rcll** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:05 am

I've used R-Studio for NTFS before, pretty good. Ontrack also makes good recovery software.

As long as you don't write any new data to the drive, you should be fine. When you delete something it only de-links the file. The data is still exactly where it was before you deleted it, but only until it's overwritten by something new.