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Recovering a Vista machine after it has been formatted

Hi All,

I have a Vista Home Premium 64 bit laptop. Is it possible to recover the system using recovery disks after it has been formatted? Also, is it possible to recover after formatting and reinstalling Vista (or any other OS for that matter)?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!!!
Jan 27 '09 #1
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DonRayner
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If nothing has been writen to the drive then the data should be almost completly recoverable. using Google you should be able to find some comercialy available software to do the recovery. You would have to do the recovery from another computer with this HD attached to it. After recovery you could try a repair with the drive reinstalled back into your laptop.

If you have written files to the drive then whatever has been overwritten is gone for good. You may be able to recover some files that have not been overwritten but even then a certain percentage of them will be no good due to a part of the file being overwritten.
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