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Any way to get em back

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mad1231moody
mad1231moody Original post #1
Jan 5, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Hi,
I have formatted my C: drive(windows drive) . B4 formatting I took my neccessary docs, on a pen drive. I have reinstalled windows XP. Now when I opened my pen drive, the content in the folders is just crap with funny names. Now there are 2 options, to recover data from pen drive or to recover data from my formatted C: drive which contains XP now. I tried PC Inspector, it shows some cluster files when I save them somewhere they are just crap files when opened. Any way out :(
arun77574
Jan 5, 2008 at 11:52 PM
I dont think deleted data from a flash memory could be recovered., your only choice is to try recovering from HDD but, if the previous memory location of the data is overwritten by something then you cannot get it back completely. It would be either fragmented or will be in a non accesable format.
zyberboy
Jan 6, 2008 at 12:16 AM
yes u can recover the files from pen drive by using programs like this one *pen-drive.qarchive.org/
but its not free, u can google for similar programs which are free.
mad1231moody
Jan 6, 2008 at 10:39 AM
Hey let me tell you that I ave not deleted the contents of my pen drive. The folders that I need are still showing but only the contents are crap. So how do I recover em
zyberboy
Jan 6, 2008 at 11:57 AM
How did the content changed ,did u copied wrong folder to the pen drive??
mad1231moody
Jan 7, 2008 at 10:28 PM
Dunno mate, maybe the pen drive caught some virus