Windows 7 Data Recovery

[sprizen]

Hello folks,

I have done something very stupid and formatted the wrong hard disk when I installed Windows 7. Fortunately I realised this and formatted the correct one and installed Windows 7 to that instead.

Nothing has been touched on the drive after the quick format.

Am I able to get the data back using some recovery tools for Windows 7? Ideally a free tool, as data recovery companies aren't cheap.

Thank you for any help!

 

[Ian]

I don't think you'll need any tools specific to Windows 7, but there are plenty of free applications that do what you are after.

Recuva is the first one that springs to mind : http://www.piriform.com/recuva

However, if you need something more powerful (which you may do in this case), you can give TestDisk a try. That is open source and also free : http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

[sprizen]

That was a speedy response! I will try the first suggestion now and see how it works.

 

[retsiger]

sprizen, next time be sure to backup everything!