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

[DxxS]

Hello, I recently got a new SSD, installed win7 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.

 

[N0b0dy]

Hi DxxS

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

Good Luck

 

[mjf]

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

 

[DxxS]

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

 

[DxxS]

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,

 

[kado897]

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

 

[DxxS]

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.

 

[kado897]

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.