Oops I formatted my external drive by mistake

davy

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Nov 25, 2009, 5:03:13 PM11/25/09

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I was casually trying to quick format my Verbatim RW DVD but realised
too late I had formatted my Verbatim 232gb external drive.
Aaaaahhhh.
Help anyone?
Davy

XR8 Sprintless

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Nov 25, 2009, 5:14:13 PM11/25/09

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Stellar Phoenix. Cheap enough for home use. Depends where you are
located. I have a tech licence of it for data recovery. There are a few
others that do the job as well.

Easeus is another that springs to mind.

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son of a bitch

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Nov 25, 2009, 6:20:59 PM11/25/09

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Andy wrote:

> Just restore from your backups.
>
> You do have backups, right?
>

Externals normally are the Backups. Backing up the Backup?

son of a bitch

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Nov 25, 2009, 6:28:35 PM11/25/09

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Assuming you didn't pull the plug half way through.....

There are tons of Format Recover, Undeleters around. There are no free
ones that work.

The ones with "try now" are totally useless as they are so crippled
you can't do any serious evaluation with them.

ypu can start with these
easeus.com
recovermyfiles.com

davy

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:43:13 PM11/25/09

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Andy wrote:

> Just restore from your backups.
>
> You do have backups, right?
>

It is my back up for most.
Davy

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sandy58

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Nov 26, 2009, 5:50:29 AM11/26/09

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I hope your looking for freebees 'cos your dud e-mail helps you
stacks!

Frank Slootweg

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Nov 26, 2009, 6:15:12 AM11/26/09

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What does "for most" mean? Was there *other* (than backup) stuff on
there as well?

If it's *only* backup, then there isn't a problem, is there? I.e. just
make another backup (assuming that your main HD didn't die as well).

terryc

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Nov 26, 2009, 10:15:54 AM11/26/09

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http://www.recovermyfiles.com/
Last I looked, it is free to download and examine your drive. Activation
s what costs.

davy

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Nov 27, 2009, 6:40:00 AM11/27/09

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I downloaded it and it showed all my files are still there.
Phew
Davy

z1

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Nov 27, 2009, 7:52:37 AM11/27/09

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OK so how did you get to use them again?

terryc

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Nov 27, 2009, 8:17:28 AM11/27/09

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That was why I recommended it. Had a customer tat wanted to recover from
a local computer shop re-install. Unfortunately, he didn't want to pay
the $100(?) current fee for his files, so I was unable to determine how
well it works in practise. guess that depends on how overwritten files
actually are.

> Davy

Rob

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Nov 27, 2009, 4:36:18 PM11/27/09

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what happens is that the FAT or index of the drive is over written not
the actual files. Only a low level format will destroy the files more
permently.