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Help recovering data, Cousin formatted a drive!!!

5 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/help-recovering-data-cousin-formatted-a-drive.131170/

coolsunny
coolsunny Original post #1
Aug 25, 2010 at 12:06 PM
Hi Guys,

Please suggest a good free software to recover data from a drive which was formatted yesterday. lost 50GB. he put 8 gb data there.
rhitwick
Aug 25, 2010 at 2:27 PM
Hi Guys,

Please suggest a good free software to recover data from a drive which was formatted yesterday. lost 50GB. he put 8 gb data there.

Formatting a drive would not have caused much damage to the content that the bolded part did.

I don't know how much would u be able to recover and in which condition, still try
Recuva (free and best)
Recover My Files (Paid)

Best of luck.
coolsunny
Aug 25, 2010 at 2:59 PM
^^ thnx for quick reply. I'll try Recuva.
CA50
CA50 #4
Sep 8, 2010 at 4:56 PM
You can also try R studio
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PraKs #5
Sep 8, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Is there anything free which can recover files of more then 1 GB ?