restoring data after a hard reset

[Daniel_rainbow]

Hello,

I had a problem with my phone, after removing some software I found that my phone wouldn't restart, (this think this might have been due to lack of space on the programs memory as I had a lot of stuf installed). it'd just stick on the windows mobile screen.

the only way that I could find to get it working again was a hard reset, (soft resets wouldn't work, it just hung on the windows mobile screen).

so, I turned it off, and turned it back on again held down the two buttons, waited till it asked me if I wanted to format and pressed send to ok this...

now the pone works, but i've lost all the data that was on it (expected).

is there any file recovery software that anyone knows of as I'd like to try to recover my old text and mms messages as well as some pictures and documents that were stored on the phone.

Many thanks,
Danny.

[thezoltar]

Well you are a bit late on this one. The time to install recovery software is before you need it. It can only recover what you have backed up. A hard reset is essentially a total erase and reset but I suspect you knew that. I use Sprite Backup and have several years of excellent results with it. SPB also makes a good backup program. Both are well worth the money and should actually be the first thing you install on your phone.

I've not heard of anyone recovering data from a hard reset. This is actually why most users keep the bulk of their data on the memory card. Good luck.

[Myrddin Wyllt]

This is actually why most users keep the bulk of their data on the memory card.

What he said...or she. I'm not bored enough to look you up, Zoltar, but that seems like a masculine name to me. I certainly wouldn't name my daughter Zoltar, for example...my son, on the other hand, would do well to respect me in the fact that I didn't give him a weird name.

Getting back to the issue. Forewarned is forearmed. Get yourself an SD card, and a backup tool. It's too late for this round (read: you're screwed), but there's bound to be a next time, if you're hanging around on this site. Also, keep your contacts synced to a computer, and copy the most critical ones to your SIM card, as well. It won't make them appear twice, and it's much easier to get contacts from SIM back onto a to phone than the other way around. At least this way, if you have to do a hard reset in the field, you don't lose those critical numbers.

K bye,

Myrddin

[thezoltar]

Jeez....talk about silly names....:-)

[Myrddin Wyllt]

Jeez....talk about silly names....:-)

Glad someone caught that...

~M

[Daniel_rainbow]

well...

I usually say that backups are someting that you tell other people to make whilst believing disaster will never strike you.

anyway... my stuff was backed up to a memory card, but the memory card stopped being recognised by the phone last week,
I've read several stories online about cards doing this. seems that they loose their formatting as the card now can't be read in a card reader and shows up as not formatted. now I'll get may card reader out and see if I can recover some of the data using data recovery software.

Also, I did take backups of my messages using PIMbackup... only after it was too late did I read the developers site telling me that media messages are not backed up because the media part of the message is an attachment.

so I'm left with the end result that my backups are not worth the effort i put into making them.

OK, looking at it from a different angle.

if there is no recovery software that can be run on the phone, is there any way that the phone can be recognised as a fat partition to a computer? then I could just scan the partition with regular tools that would be used to recover data from a normal hard drive.

[sandpears]

I am looking for solutions of this kind also...

my PC to see my xda as an accessible fat partition so that i can scan it with a recovery application.. or ..
a recovery application written fro Windows Mobile

dose any one have answers?

thanks

[sandpears]

can I make a disk image of my pda and scan that with a recovery application on my pc?

[sandpears]

can I make a disk image of my pda and scan that with a recovery application on my pc?

[ibelong2u]

I was able to recover most of my files, after performing a hard reset, using Raise Data Recovery (ufsexplorer.mobi)