Can I recover data from a reformatted HD? - Computers & Internet

I have to ask, why would you connect a Computer hard drive to a television?

Remove the hard from the television and connect it to a computer. The hard drive hasn't been reformatted, because you can see the folders. If it reformatted it would be blank. With the hard drive in a hard drive enclosure and connected to a computer, you can try and read the data and find out why the filenames were altered and bring them back. I am guessing the file associations have been lost, or the file extension has been altered. There is also Undelete software you can use as well as diagnostic software.

Not sure how you can fix the card, but after recovering the data you could try reformatting it from the camcorder. To recover the data on the card:

There is some free (for home use) software called "Recuva" that you can use to do this. It will look for any files that can be recovered. Provided the card has not been used since the files were deleted the files should be recoverable.
You can find the software here:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Or you can search yourself for "recuva" in Google. It will be the first unsponsored link in the list of results.
You need to insert the card into the computer that has recuva on it and then select the correct drive letter in the software and then scan for deleted files.
Good luck.

after a format all files will be removed if you want or need to recover certain files or pictures

there are many freeware data recovery programs available on the web

http://www.download.com/data-recovery/3000-2094_4-10664893.html?tag=api

http://download.cnet.com/easeus-partition-recovery/3000-2248_4-75279786.html

http://download.cnet.com/easeus-deleted-file-recovery/3000-2248_4-10867160.html
hope it helps

You will have to take the drive off, put it on an external hdd enclosure with a usb connection, connect it to a working computer, scan it for viruses and spyware, copy all of your data to another device (i.e. hdd, flashdisk, cd, etc). Then, reinstall the hd back on to the original computer and turn it on. If it works it you've solved your problem. If it doesn't then reformat your hdd, reinstall your operating system, programs, and data.
Time consuming? yes but it works.

The drive may have encountered a safe power off problem. There are several things to try. In My Computer, click on Tools/Map Network Drive and see if you're able to assign the external drive a new letter. If successful, you should be all set, if not the drive may need to be reformatted. Prior to reformatting, you can recover your data. Click on the link below:
Date Recovery this link is a freeware program that is designed to recover lost data or data not recognized by your computer. Once installed, you should see the external drive and be able to recover the data. Once all the data is recovered, you are free to reformat the drive to make it recognizable by your machine again. Best of luck.
Greg

When the Digital Wave Player application copies the files to yourcomputer, the default location is under My Documents>Digital WavePlayer>Message. There, you will see FolderA, FolderB, etc. +Recording & Schedule folders.

If the files are not there, use a file recovery application, such as PhotoRec to recover the deleted files.

my Buffalo external hard disc can be detected by laptop, but my access is denied. When i click on the hard disc icon, it popped out a message box prompting me to reformat my hard disc. Is there any other way to retrieve my files before reformat or
is there any other way to recover my files after reformat?
Is there any other way to troubleshoot my hard disc other than reformatting it?
Please help me, I am desperate to recover all my files because they are too important/precious to lose it.

Yes you can still recover it using a data recovery software , you can check this link for those type of data recovery software http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

Hope that helps..........

sadly when you say reformatting, you cant recover those data. but if you do it on a pc with a card reader/writer and a recvery software, this might work.

Get Hiren's Boot CD. It has many utilities which includes data recovery, low level format and hard disk partitioning.