Hi, I did a data recovery after getting a Trojan on my machine {no comments pse},and after formatting my hard drive.  A lot of the files i lost were in HTML and some in HTM.  On recovery though the files obviously did not come back as they went out.  This is some of what i now see in the files?

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How do i get these back to the original HTML or HTM they were in?  I have a stand alone machine and run on Windows XP Professional.

Would really appreciate any assistance. {And am praying like heck it aint gonna be too difficult}
Ta

What program did you use for recovery?  You might want to give a different application a shot.

I've had success with at least one of these, and other tek-tips users seem to have success with each of these (different people, different posts here):

Various products by Active, such as their Partition Recovery - in your case, this may be the way to go:
http://www.partition-recovery.com/

The other one I see mentioned often is Runtime:
http://www.runtime.org/

Of course, there are others, but I KNOW I've recovered quite a bit with the first one.

This company's stuff is supposed to be very powerful as well:
http://www.data-recovery-software.net/

Since you're saying you've already formatted the drive, well, the simplest applications probably just won't work.  All of the above programs may very well work, but you may need the paid versions of them to get exactly what you want.  Also, with those, look to just get it started, and check on it the next day.  They do take quite some time to work their "magic".

Also, with Active Partition Recovery, for instance, if you get the purchased version, you can actually restore a partition "in place", meaning you can restore it exactly where it was to start with.  The free version lets you restore to an image file or another partition, if I remember correctly, and assuming it hasn't changed.

You can try some of the other ones such as "Free Undelete" and another one I just can't remember the name of right now, but I'm pretty sure you'll have to go with the big boys to successfully recover from a formatted partition.  Here's a link to Free Undelete.  You may also be able to find older versions of current programs that are no longer free, but used to be - at least I think they've listed those in the past:
http://majorgeeks.com/FreeUndelete_d4407.html

Just search from that link or the main page for that site, and see what you can find.  There are also areas you can just click around for various different programs.  Oftentimes, you'll find interesting little applications there that you won't hardly find elsewhere.

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"If to err is human, then I must be some kind of human!" -Me

did you put back xp without first recovering the data off the drive?

this is the fundamental that you need to look at if you did then that's the reason why your files are coming out like that, there is a high possibility of an overwrite on your drive

if not what application did you use to try and recover the data ?


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