Looking for some desparate ideas

[Tim Wunder]

On Saturday 10 June 2006 11:31 pm, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> I got a call today from a neighbor.  He is self-employed and a pretty
> smart fellow.  About a year ago he got malwared on his WinME business
> system, so he reformatted and reinstalled everything.  Now he needs to
> access some data from before the reformat.  Is there any way to get that
> data back?  Everything that I know tells me that it is gone forever.
>
> The only problem with that is that it is the IRS asking for the data.
>

In a past life, I've used EZ Recovery, from On Track Software to recover a 
FAT32 partition somehow lost in my early days of dual booting:
http://www.ontrack.com/software/
But I didn't reformat over top of it, and certainly didn't use it for a year 
after having reformatted it.

Did you tell him to just retrieve the data from his backups?

HTH, 
Tim

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