Windows 7: File recovery help needed, Have made a school boy error.

Hello, I recently got a new SSD, installed Windows 7 on it and all is good, decided to use the old drive for storage and formatted it, then filled it with data. I have since realised I didnt backup a few excel files which I could do with getting back. I have tried using Power Data Recovery, I have had sucess with this in the past when deleting/formatting but not when over writing.



Can anyone recomend any programs which may help? I have only written new data once, havent added and deleted multiple times.

Thanks in advance.

Hi DxxS

i used this here to recover my files
Data Recovery Software to Undelete Files; Disk recovery; Recover Deleted Files

Good Luck

You can also try Recuva which is well regarded (and free).

Thanks for the suggestions guys, will give them a try.

Have just used Recuva which can see the files I need but it says overwritten, unrecoverable, It tells me what file it was overwritten with, is there anything I will be able to do to get these back using Recuva?

Thanks,

Sorry DxxS. I'm pretty sure if Recuva says it's overwritten then you will not be able to recover it.

So I have the excel doc back but it wont open, says it is corrupt. Do you know of any good ways to get it back? I have tried a few programs from a google search but so far none have done the job.

Thanks.

Excel is supposed to be able to recover data from corrupt files when you open them. If Excel can't do it then I don't think you will have much luck.