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Question

Possibility if dats recovery from formatted disk

Jan 20, 2015 11:21PM PST

I gave my laptop to service centre. The disk is formatted many times, also i installed ubuntu and again reinstalled windows 7. Is there any possibility for the service centre guys to recover my data which is installed during my first install of windows

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I'm going with no...
Jan 20, 2015 11:32PM PST

if the disc has been "formatted many times."
Dafydd.

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probably not, but
Jan 21, 2015 12:04AM PST

If you run GParted, it has a recovery program in it, "testdisk" and a file recovery, which might find the files you want to save. It will check and let you know, and of course it's free too.