Important documents lost

[peter467]

Hi there
someone can you help me?
i lost ,y mistake, some word and pdf documents which where stored in a usb pen drive 
where I made a simple formatting confusing two usb pen drives
Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Professional  does not work and I am not able to recover the files 
Which sofware to use?
the documets are important to me
please help me 
thanks in advance

[mclaren85]

Download this portable program and scan the disk you want. You will see the lost file. Select them then recover.

 

http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/DataRecovery_EN.zip

 

Edit: After first and fast scan pay attention to warning screen. If you press "ok" then it starts deep scan, you can use this option when you couldn't find the file you want at the very first scan.

 

[peter467]

thanks very muCH

 

BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.......The deep scan found many thing but not my files

why???.....they where just word and pdf files

 

Please help 

[franco46]

Try this. See if it helps.

 

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

[IronY-Man]

Try to filter the list to the extensions of the files after the deep scan of whatever software you're using and look for recent files, sometimes when due to formatting the software doesnt shows files by their actual names cos they've overwritten by new data and shows names with gibberish text like they you see with encrypted files e.g. $$$Ashjahfuejf.docx or $$auiore7489fds.pdf ; hope you got the gist . Altho, not a full proof way but you can try recovering these (if they can be) then check if they are intact !!

[straycat19]

5 hours ago, peter467 said:

thanks very muCH

 

BUT IT DIDN'T WORK.......The deep scan found many thing but not my files

why???.....they where just word and pdf files

 

Please help 

 

Try to recover whatever the deep scan found but to a different drive.  They may be your documents in fragments or could be your documents but not in any specific document format.  In forensics a lot of the data recovered initially looks like gibberish but the article contents can be manually extracted from the machine code symbols that are interspersed in the data recovered.  So you won't necessarily see a 'My Word Document.docx' or 'My PDF File.pdf' as they originally looked or were named.

[silv3rdagg3r]

I once been in the same situation and PhotoRec really helped me out, it will recover the data but not the folder structure so be ready to open whichever files it throws at you, best of luck.