Need some help (data recovery)
 

Somebody I know recently burned a backup of his documents on a cd, but the cd for some reason is not readable. He reformatted the hard drive with a fresh copy of xp on it. Is there some software (preferrably free) that can recover the old data on the hard drive? Anybody can recommend a good one?

Always check the back up media is good, cdrw are awesome for these sort of problems.

I had a good experience with ACR recently, deleted my employment folder with my C.V. and history in it [thumbdown]

Got it back tho.

AND the pictures of Chantelle off Big Brother with her narps out http://discussworldissues.com/forums...lies/cool1.gif

Just noticed you have installed xp, you are likely to have lost some stuff sadly.

Not free (dont think there is a free package), but we used this at our last company and can vouch for its excellence. Its not too expensive either.
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

**actually there are some free packages you can try!

Tried different computers? That's the first thing I do if a CD is unreadable, I try a different cd drive.

Tried on 5 different drivers, the cd is definitely flakey.

Gonna try NTFS-reader first, let's hope it can recover at least a few things...