Need help recovering data, urgent!

vahe

Hey guys, I need some urgent help.

Here's the story: I backed up my user folder to my external HDD, and wiped my ssd. After installing Mountain Lion, I discovered that one of the folder (ironically or not, the most important one) was not fully backed up to the external drive. What options do I have to restore those files from my ssd (after installing the mountain lion on it)?

Any advice is appreciated!

EDIT: Partition type was/is HFS+.

Taz

Please tell me you have a backup portion like windows create when upgrading. If not geek squad.

jarland

http://www.cleverfiles.com/

Good luck.

vahe

@NinjaHawk said: Please tell me you have a backup portion like windows create when upgrading.

What you mean by "backup portion like windows".

AsadHaider

Try software that can specifically recover deleted items/partitions and hope that it hasn't been overwritten by now. It's gonna be a pain in the ass.

jarland

He means like Windows.old folder. Doesn't apply to a format.

vahe

@jarland said: http://www.cleverfiles.com/

Good luck.

Thanks, downloading now....

jarland

You'll have to pay but it'll tell you if you can recover what you want first. Pay or pirate (option 1 encouraged), there is no free application that does this effectively to my knowledge.

lele0108

Basically, your fucked.

SSDs have a thing called TRIM. It's meant to help perfermence by erasing the NANDs of the SSD after you delete (or in your case, format) your disk.

Unlike mechanicals, which do not do this, recovering your file is hard, since most sectors are most likely wiped to have faster r/w.

:/

vahe

:( I need a machine to go back in time.

Jacob

Don't we all... :)

Data loss is a bitch..

@vahe said: :( I need a machine to go back in time.

Damian

@vahe said: I need a machine to go back in time.

Too late now, but this will save you in the future: http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/

Alex_LiquidHost

On windows, the only software that has helped me so far was ZAR (zero asumption recovery). It managed to get 90% of the lost files, after I restored a whole disk (instead of partition) from image. 1TB of data was lost and managed to get pretty much everything. It took days, though.

vahe

Looks like the old files are still there, but not filesystem tree of course. Just by looking at the recovered raw picture files, I'm amazed by the aggressive caching that Chrome does. I can see every avatar, logo, meme, etc. viewed. Even more surprised by iPhoto, which, looks like, caches pictures from any connected iPhone, even if the pictures were not selected to be imported. Wow.

eastonch

Chrome likes to cache anything that loads. @vahe goodluck :']