hi, i have been given a computer to repair and the client has had it reformatted with windows XP put on, now they were wondering and it is a long shot but is there any way to recover the pictures that were stored on the hard drive before it was formatted?? i understand that everything is never deleted off the drive when formatted, is there anything that i can do to recover the data? James

take the disk to another pc, intall this program: http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/ and run a scan in forensic mode. great likelyhood to recovery most of the files. Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575

Try file scavenger, they have a demo program and you will see what is on your drive. I had a client that had PC problems and the Dell techs told her to reformat her drive and re-install XP, never telling her that she would lose all her info and many years of pics which were stored on her HD. She called me crying that she lost everything. I had her ship me her HD which I slaved to my PC and I tried GetDataBack and it didn't work well. I also tried a few others and instead of name files, everything was an orphan file with #'s for names. I finally tried File Scavenger and recovered almost 5,000 of her pics (all named) and tons of her document files. She was an extremely happy camper. FS last year was $39.99 but I think it went up to $49.99 like all the other software in that field. I swear by it, because it does work...Good Luck P.S. the more programs you put on after a reformat, the less chance you have of retrieving your files. Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

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Thanks for the link per, have you tried watching the vid called watchit for that software? It says you need macromedia flash player 7 to view it. I tried it with both IE and firefox and neither one works, just keep getting that message. Anyone else having that same problem viewing that demonstration? Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results....thanks

read here who is using winhex and you might get an impression HOW good it is ... nothing under the sun is getting anywhere near it! http://www.x-ways.net/winhex/morein... Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575

when i click on watchit! it's playing a stupid flash anim with a link to skip intro and evetually gets you to website in german. intro is playing like a charme in my ferrari browser ... maybe you have tuned your rolls royce to death :-) Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575