Re: deleted part of my girlfriends thesis - HELP

From: T. Sean Weintz (strap_at_hanh-ct.org)
Date: 10/22/04


Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 11:19:33 -0400

Henning Dalgaard wrote:
> I have a laptop with 2 partitions and after I ran Compaqs system recovery to
> reinstall WinXP I saw that it deleted my e-drive where my documents where.
> Is it possible to recover the docs even after a format, and even after I
> have made a new partition (thought I had backup so I made a new partition
> with partition magic, but there is one important excelfile that I am
> missing).
> Since I am using a laptop, I dont have the option of taking the drive out
> and putting it in another pc. I have a usb drive that I can connect to my
> laptop though.
> Help greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
On your own, no you will not be able to recover the data. If it is
critical and you don't mind spending $500.00 or so Ontrack Data Recovery
(or a similart data recovery service) can probably get it back if you
take the hard drive out of the laptop and send it to them.



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