Recovering Of Lost Data

I think u copied the problem along with your files while backing up.

I'll advice u meet data recovery professionals. So many of them in Lagos. Recovering data from disks is a technical stuffs- sometimes it requires u freezing your disk et all.
Stop working on it to avoid permanent damage cuzz data recovery is never guarantee. it depends on the state of your disc. Sometimes not all d files can be recovered. pm me if u need contacts.

recovering data from formatted hard drive is not fully guaranteed. for illustration purposes, lets assume you have a 5 MB hard drive each MB lets say its a cell.  you have data occupying the first 3MB/cells. you format the drive the data still remains. if u reinstall applications operating systems etc what you were expecting to recover could possibly be over written because the new items will be allocated to the spaces randomly. defragmenting will re arrange. and over write what you intended to recover.

Sometimes you get back some things, sometimes you loose. the best suggest is to get a big hard drive and do regular backups.

@francisgoshen
You forget to tell us what made you format your hard drive,

hey, just saw this post...
can help with the data recovery if you havent done it already..

@kidgenious   how it works

lets see, you copied data from your flash drive. . . but you cannot view the folder contents, though it does occupy some space.

Quick diagnostic questions:

1) File System of your machine before format

2) File System of machine after format

- if these are not compatible, you may just be experiencing this issue

Next Step

1) Try looking at the files on another machine.  Unless you are a government agent who is sworn to keep this data secret. . . you must be me if you did not go somewhere else and try looking at the data on your flash drive.

Think about this while you are going to a friends computer

1) Did you verify that you actually copied the data and could view the files on your flash drive?
2) Are there other files on your flash drive which open fine?


If this fails, you are approaching some serious Sh*t
1) In unix, you could look at the data byte by byte. . .really bit by bit if you really wanted to, if the data is that important, and you have a thorough knowledge of the file types that were there, you can reconstruct missing hearder information or corrupt information which could keep them from showing up on your desktop

If You are At this Step
- unless you have lots of money to spend and this is super important to you, you are screwed.  Give up, tear your hair, and go about your business.  You will not recover this data without having to spend lots of money.  There is NO freely available anything that would do this.  Anyone with the knowhow to do this knows the value of their knowledge.