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I agree. Depending on the size of the HDD and the amount of data lost, there's a good chance that some data can be recovered, especially small files like office
by chinhodado 11y ago
I agree. Depending on the size of the HDD and the amount of data lost, there's a good chance that some data can be recovered, especially small files like office documents.
That said, it's a HDD wipe followed immediately by a full Windows installation, so there's a high chance a lot of the data were overwritten already.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoSure, there's a chance some of it was overwritten already, though hopefully Windows 7 and Windows 10 are a similar size on disk, which would mean that it'd mostly be OS files that were overwritten (as Windows should be installed on the early sectors of the hard disk in both cases).
- acqq 11y ago> as Windows should be installed on the early sectors of the hard disk in both cases) Not after enough updates.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoI'm suggesting his father stops using the laptop until his son can attempt recovering the files to get around problems like this.
- acqq 11y agoYes, if it's possible, it's certainly worth at least trying rescuing what's left. It's very possible however that the rescue operation can simply be too complicated and too time demanding for the people involved, and that at the end the amount of the rescued data is too small. Apparently what is missing is "all the organization and notes" of the scanned photos.