I have accidintally formatted my H.D. I remembered that there was an important file in my H.D. Can you help me recover my file. I have been working in it for about one year. Do you know any program that can help me and where can I download it? Please help

Build a time machine? :P I'm just kidding - that's a popular question on here and one I know will get answered. Just *do not* do anything to the hard drive in the mean time! :)

Here are two companies that recover data Data Mechanix- Mr Craig Ragar and Ontrack both in Orange county, CA.

Ontrack had offices in the outskirts of Minneapolis in a town called Eden Prairie. If you are using DOS 5 or 6.XX there may be an UNDELETE command available. Ontrack Computer Systems, Inc. 6321 Bury Drive Eden Prairie, MN 55346. 1-800-752-1333 1-9612)-937-0868 BBS HTTP://WWW.Ontrack.Com They are also the makers of one DISK Manager overlay program for large hard drives.

Isn't there an UNFORMAT program that can recover some stuff? I recall seeing that... also... didn't the format simply zero the FAT but leave all the data?

There is a cheap solution but time consuming. If you put your disk as a slave from a bootable nt station, you can use dskprobe.exe and find the sectors where your important file is, it's an hexadecimal editor of your HD sectors. This can only be done if you feel comfortable with very technical things, when editing you'll be able to save your file in the exact range of sectors where you file is. You'll have to save it as .dsk but of course you can rename it after in .doc or whatever. Go read about it on the net. Good luck, Olivier

i found a program that recovers formated HD´s it is called "fast file recover" from dtidata.com, it recovers files of a certain size, if you need to recover a biger file you can find a patch for the program that will probably solve your problems at astalavista.box.sk