Data Recovery

I have a problem and wonder if there is a way to fix it. I have reinstalled Windows on a HP machine. HP has a nice recovery mechanism to restore everything back to the default. Before I did it I saved everything on a mobile harddisk.
The first time I restored Windows it looked like the recovery did not work although it took about 1 hour. The next day I tried again after deleting the partition and it worked perfectly. The problem I found out when triing to restore my data is that the recovery has restored Windows to my mobile harddisk the first time. That way I lost all my data. My question is if there is a way, maybe with Acronis tools, to get my data back.

The situation at this moment is that I have working harddisk with one partition formatted NTFS with a default HP Windows XP setup (2GB). I used to have a single partition NTFS compressed. There was about 30GB of data on it and I like to restore the last 5GB

Thanks in advance.

Gert van Kempen

 

Hello Gert,

Thank you for your interest in Acronis software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/).

Acronis offers special tool to recover lost data. It is Acronis Recovery Expert included into Acronis Disk Director Suite (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/) and Acronis Power Utilities (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/powerutilities/). This tool allows you to recover the partition deleted from the unallocated space. You may download free trial version of Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 from http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/diskdirector/ and see whether Acronis Reccovery Expert finds the lost partition. Please note that free trial version will not restore the partition even if it finds it.

Thank you.
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Ilya Toytman