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shockme17
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Jun 1, 2009, 09:29 PM
 
What is a good program to use to recover data from a disk that was formatted?

I use getdatabackntfs/fat for windows, but not sure what to use for mac.


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AKcrab
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Jun 1, 2009, 10:39 PM
 
Data Rescue II
     
64stang06
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Jun 1, 2009, 10:43 PM
 
As long as you didn't use the disk after formatting, you should be able to get some results with Data Rescue II, as AKcrab posted.
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moonmonkey
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Jun 3, 2009, 09:20 AM
 
yes, it will work well, you need another disk to save the results to obviously.
     
   
 
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