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    Jynnifer Posts: 7, Reputation: 2
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    Jan 5, 2009, 05:51 AM
    Accidentally formatted hard drive, need to recover.
    My computer wouldn't do anything... frozen every time I started it and so I hit F10 on start up and thought I was restoring data to an earlier date and turns out that I formatted hard drive. I am devastated... I have videos of my dad and I talking right before he died, photos of the kids not to mention spreadsheets I would love to have. For Christmas my husband bought me a portable drive to be able to back everything up on and we were going to do this over the weekend but of course this happened. If anyone can help, I would so appreciate it. I have looked into hard drive recovery software but don't know what will work or how good it is. Thank you for any info supplied.
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    Jan 5, 2009, 01:40 PM
    If you truly formatted the drive, STOP! Do not do anything else with the computer. Take the computer to a reputable local service facility that has experience with data recovery or contact one of the data recovery companies such as Ontrack Data Recovery.
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    Jan 5, 2009, 07:36 PM

    I would agree with above suggestion
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    Jynnifer Posts: 7, Reputation: 2
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    Jan 5, 2009, 08:05 PM

    I followed the link in the first answer and am confused as to what I should do... send the hard drive somewhere or download the software available on this website?
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    Jan 5, 2009, 08:30 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Jynnifer
    ...am confused as to what I should do...
    Call the number on the website, tell them what you did, and see what they recommend.
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