Nooooooooooooooo!

**Tartaros** · 11-05-2008, 14:17

don´t know, but probably this could help you??

http://www.recuva.com/

best wishes!!

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-05-2008, 14:50

Yes, but recover from a reformat? That shouldn't merely have erased the file from memory it should have erased it from the disk as well. Otherwise my understanding of diskformat is clearly lacking.

**bovi** · 11-05-2008, 16:29

Your understanding of diskformat is lacking. It will merely format the file allocation tables. On the assumption that he didn't do a low-level format, of course. And that nothing else has been written on top of them in the meantime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting

I think there are utilities that can recover files from a high-level formatted disk. I don't know if Recuva is that thing, but google it and see what you find.

**Tellos Athenaios** · 11-05-2008, 16:34

Originally Posted by bovi

Your understanding of diskformat is lacking. It will merely format the file allocation tables. On the assumption that he didn't do a low-level format, of course. And that nothing else has been written on top of them in the meantime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_formatting

Ehrm, he did just do a full OS re-install, didn't he?

**LordCurlyton** · 11-05-2008, 18:42

Heh I just had a similar problem. I just installed Windows again, it made a Windows.old folder, and I saved all I wanted before doing a format and clean reinstall. Now my computer runs better since I did the installing myself, plus I saved my EB games.