Thing is, I already installed quite a few programs when realising this...Try not using that hard disk while you're trying to recover the data, hopefully it wasn't overwritten by Windows when doing the reinstallation, I hope you can get the file back.
Most of the free data recovery programs work pretty well. But you might be better off just checking each website you got keys from or your emails if you kept copies of pms from here.Thing is, I already installed quite a few programs when realising this...
Yea emails and PM’s. The last resort. Gonna take long hours to check every single one, there are hundreds. And the worst part is that I can’t know which ones are used.Most of the free data recovery programs work pretty well. But you might be better off just checking each website you got keys from or your emails if you kept copies of pms from here.
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I lost a sheet of sales leads I made for an employer last yearYea emails and PM’s. The last resort. Gonna take long hours to check every single one, there are hundreds. And the worst part is that I can’t know which ones are used.
i accidentally format my 2tb backup drive (didn't install anything after or overwrite the drive). Do u think Pandora will work for my case?I lost a sheet of sales leads I made for an employer last year
Pandora is good at even pulling up 'chewed up' documents
Often times even though the documents label is gone and there is digital debri (looks like encryption) all throughout the doc you'll find that all the data is smeared in there as well.
You need to remember if it was .txt, .doc. .xsl that you saved the keys in and rummage every file of that type that Pandora coughs up
Depending on how much you have on your hard drive you may have to let Pandora run over night.
http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000-2094_4-10694796.html
If by "completely reset" you mean that Windows was reinstalled on the same drive, then there's not much hope for recovering that file. Odds are that some or all of the file was overwritten during the reinstall. At the very least, the entire file system structure was recreated from scratch, so even if all of the parts of the document are still on the drive, there's no file system data left to indicate that those blocks of data are all one file.Hey guys,
Got quite a big issue here. I got my windows completely reset because I didn't do it since I bought my PC (over a year). Well the fun part is that I forgot to save 1 file. One of the most important files. My doc with a bunch of game keys. I know, I know...I am stupid. But that's it. It got deleted, and I have no idea how to get it back. Is there any way to restore it? (tried to do with easeUS but I didn't find anything). The file was on the desktop.
I'll reward with a couple keys whoever helps me get this file back, cause it would be really important.
Cheers!
Thank you very much! I downloaded it and doing a scan right now.If by "completely reset" you mean that Windows was reinstalled on the same drive, then there's not much hope for recovering that file. Odds are that some or all of the file was overwritten during the reinstall. At the very least, the entire file system structure was recreated from scratch, so even if all of the parts of the document are still on the drive, there's no file system data left to indicate that those blocks of data are all one file.
Having said that, I've tried many different drive recovery programs during my decades in IT. My personal favorite in recent years is MiniTool Power Data Recovery. It seems to find far more usable data than most of the competitors. I recently recovered a corrupted external drive (it was physically good) that was unrecoverable with several other mainstream recovery programs. There's a free version that has some limitations, the key ones being that you cannot resume a recovery (you must rescan every time you run it) and you can only recover 1 GB max (both obviously designed to get you to cough up $69 to buy it). Since your missing file would be well under a gig, you might give it a try: https://www.powerdatarecovery.com/power-data-recovery-compare-license-type.html
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