Since it went to factory default, I believe most of the data is probably already overwritten. If you're lucky, your important files are still recoverable, but I agree with Shawn. It's not a job for the faint of heart.
John On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > I would ask yourself how much that data is worth to you. > > If the answer to that question is more than a few hundred, or thousand > dollars, then DO NOT attempt a recovery yourself. In this case, I would > suggest to do as little as possible with the drive - unplug it out right. > Then ship it to a professional data recovery shop - such as CBL - and let > them do the work for you. > > Attempting to recover the data yourself could end up overwriting sections > of the drive that you may contain parts of the old data - making that data > impossible / very difficult (aka very expensive) to recover. > > So, the recommended approach is that as soon as a drive reaches a point > where data recovery of this sort may be needed, halt all possible activity > on that drive to (hopefully) preserve a better chance of getting the > original data back. > > If however you find your data isn't really worth all that much, but > represents a minor convenience, you by all means you can try recovering the > drive yourself. In this case I would suggest using dd to grab a snapshot of > the drive (to a still larger drive) as a file. Now you can mount that file > as if it were a drive and analyze it directly - without touching the > original drive. You may get lucky and discover that only the inodes have > been reset - which means the original data is still there, just lacking > pointers to it. This is getting pretty low level into understanding file > systems and drives though... good experience, but maybe a bit tooo much > work. > > HTH. > > Shawn > > Pradeep Mishra wrote: > >> Accidentally, I deleted everything from my laptop bringing it to factory >> default setup. >> I am using this laptop for last 4 years and it had some important files >> in it. Can anybody >> suggest any way of undoing this? Or can anyody suggest any good, user >> friendly Undelete program which I can use to recover the lost files? >> With due apology, let me mention that, I was running WIn XP in this >> laptop, which is a Sony VAIO with Pentium IV. >> Any help will be highly appreciated. >> Thanks and regards, >> Pradeep. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> > > -- John Greep http://www.johngreep.com
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