PCs & Mobiles Forum - I restored my dell computer to factory condition and forgot to backup my files - Page 1

To be honest, I don't think you have much chance, but you should not do anything on that PC as you rish overwiting the data you want to recover.

There are companies which can do that for you, I've never used one, but they're aimed more at  businesses so may be very expensive.

a few pieces of software I've seen linked to before but have never used:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Most programs for home users seem to be quick fixes for if you delete a file, but I think the above can be used after formatting.

I would advise against you using "TestDisk" - purely because it's pretty technical and (with no offence intended) I don't think you're up to using that.

Recuva however, is much more user friendly and will give you a chance at recovering some files.

But as Al has said, you should not be using the PC at all to avoid the risk of over-writing more files.
You should really take out the hard drive and try to recover files from another machine.

At least you'll now learn about how important backing up files is.

Hiya deano....have you tried using a programme called ubunto....i used this acess my files and followed their instuctions to recover most of my files....try it nothing to lose....here's link....www.ubuntu.com/ good luck Moods

It won't help if he's formatted the drive though! Still, I always recommend having a Linux handy...

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