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So a couple of years ago my ps3 was infected with a virus that corrupted all my saved data and accounts, so i had to delete everything and restart, i was wondering if its possible to bring back my deleted data?
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you can do a recovery on a hard drive there are plenty of pieces of software you can buy (would have to be done from a pc) however they are not so cheap and you can send a hard drive off for recovery but now your looking at stupid money,
when you quick format a hard drive which is what you would have likely done then it would just remove the data labels (the bits that tell the hdd where one peice of data starts and one ends) so when you use it again you write straight over the old data, if you had a full 40gb hdd and formatted it and wrote 20gb data then the first 20gb of the original data would be gone but in theory with the wright software you can recover the second 20, but this does not mean this data is usable and it does not mean it is complete particularly if the data was fragmented (data split across the drive due to things being deleted and new files being bigger so not fitting in the same place)
if you wanted to try some free drive recovery software you might get something back but i would really advise against spending to have it recovered because you would likely get something unusable
in short you could possibly recover something with enough messing around but it would be unlikely to be much use to you, i have successfully recovered drives in the past but it was immediately after deletion and using paid software
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If you didn’t get it back then, don’t bother trying it now, especially with encrypted console data.
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There is much recovery software you can buy from the Internet. From my experience, for PS3 i will suggest Yodot Hard Drive Recovery.
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If you have corrupt data all yodot duz is recover corrupt data so all your get is corrupt data, don't bother emailing them all there say is find another recovery program ?
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