Hi All,
Just want to know if there's any freeware application out there for recovering data from a formatted disk (through a operating system reinstallation). I have found a couple of trial versions but unfortunately even though they work fine, the applications only allow you to either save small files or just view the files without being able to save them.
To give you a background as to why i find myself in this situation. One of the laptops in our company recently had problems related to a corrupt windows installer file. Now after having tried to repair, unistalling and reinstalling the windows installer without any luck, i had no option but to reinstall the whole operating system. I even tried unistalling/reinstalling winXP SP2 using the recovery console but this didn't help either. I have always thought of myself to be a very careful person but somehow this time i missed one folder, which the user saved in the C: drive somehwhere. I never used the "files and system transfer wizard in XP" cause i onced used it to backup stuff and it somehow could not work properly. At least with a direct backup you can actually see the stuff being backed up immediately. I only backed up the user's profile, that is, desktop, my docs, archives etc. Now this turns out to be some very important information. We always tell users to save important data on the server but hey they never listen to us do they?
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Sbale