"pikespeak" <pikespeaklosangeles@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Okay Guys,
>
> This might have a simple answer, I'm quite sure of it.
>
> I just did a Destructive System Recovery, not a Non-Destructive and all my
> stuff is gone, right? It sure looks like it.
>
> Forever, is there anyway to reverse that?
>
> I'm assuming not, but when everything is gone, it's gone right?
It still might be possible to recover files.
Ive had good results with this utility from
www.RecoverMyFiles.com
A friend had "unwittingly" done the same thing and we got back most of his
stuff with the above - but it took over 13 hours to complete the scan of the
drive. And it that instance it required taking the drive out of his machine
and hooking it up to another. His own PC couldnt cope as it kept crashing
after about 20 mins running the scan. Connecting the drive to another PC
makes it easier to copy the recovered files to another drive.
In order to preserve your chances of recovering your old data you should
really minimise the use of your PC. The OS is constantly creating temporary
files which can overwrite areas containing your data. Putting the drive into
another PC means youre not running the OS from the drive your trying to
recover data from.
HTH
YMMV
Ian
PS I don't work for RecoverMyFiles.com