Accidentally started formatting my hard drive...

2009-02-04 02:59:36

#1

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

I was creating a bootable USB, but I had to go, so, I cancelled and took the USB (on my keychain), then when I came back, I plugged the USB drive back in, and started formatting, only to realize that after I plugged it out, the formatting program had defaulted to my fucking external HD, I cancelled as soon as possible and unplugged the hard drive, but now it's a blank unformatted disk.

All 500GB lost forever? Or can I recover?

2009-02-04 03:00:11

#2

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6703|King Of The Islands

R-Studio NTFS.

Go.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-02-04 03:01:02

#3

GC_PaNzerFIN: Work and study @ Technical Uni; +528|6678|Finland

lol... sucks mate... recovery time

3930K | H100i | RIVF | 16GB DDR3 | GTX 480 | AX750 | 800D | 512GB SSD | 3TB HDD | Xonar DX | W8

2009-02-04 03:06:28

#4

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Cheez wrote:
R-Studio NTFS.

Go.

Yea, I figure it should be possible since nothing was written over it.

2009-02-04 03:08:01

#5

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6703|King Of The Islands

You did a quick format rite?

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-02-04 03:16:55

#6

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Cheez wrote:
You did a quick format rite?

Actually no, I started a non-quick format, since it was too big to quick format FAT32, I thought whatever, since it was supposed to be a simple 4GB USB drive....

Running recovery right now, I'll see what happens.

2009-02-04 03:19:00

#7

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6703|King Of The Islands

Ruh-ohs.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2009-02-04 03:42:31

#8

Brasso: member; +1,549|6894

Try GetDataBack, that ended up being the one that worked for me. There are like 10 recovery programs on Hiren's Boot CD so one of them ought to do the job. Good luck as well, it takes a while and it's pretty frustrating.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2009-02-04 05:43:36

#9

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6052|Catherine Black

How'd it go?

2009-02-04 07:01:28

#10

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Finray wrote:
How'd it go?

Going fine, seems like everything is intact, now I just need to somehow copy it over to my other HDs...which there definately isn't room for

2009-02-04 07:06:45

#11

Benzin: Member; +576|6262

Buy a new drive and an external enclosure. Should cost about about $120 USD max.

2009-02-04 07:11:24

#12

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

CapnNismo wrote:
Buy a new drive and an external enclosure. Should cost about about $120 USD max.

$120 in iceland is like $300 in the US these days.

2009-02-04 08:28:56

#13

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6052|Catherine Black

Buy a new hard drive and an external enclosure. Should cost about $300 ILD max.

2009-02-04 11:08:59

#14

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm: ©; +1,811|6261

good ruck

2009-02-04 11:39:02

#15

White-Fusion: Fuck; +616|6816|Scotland

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
good ruck

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2009-02-04 12:28:31

#16

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

So far all my data is intact, now it's just a question of fitting it on my other HDs

2009-02-04 13:03:00

#17

SpIk3y: Minister of Silly Walks; +67|6403|New Jersey

Sydney wrote:
So far all my data is intact, now it's just a question of fitting it on my other HDs

Are you using GetDataBack?

2009-02-04 13:18:16

#18

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

SpIk3y wrote:
Sydney wrote:
So far all my data is intact, now it's just a question of fitting it on my other HDs
Are you using GetDataBack?

Yep, worked like a charm.

2009-02-04 13:27:08

#19

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6052|Catherine Black

Sydney wrote:
SpIk3y wrote:
Sydney wrote:
So far all my data is intact, now it's just a question of fitting it on my other HDs
Are you using GetDataBack?
Yep, worked like a charm.

Successful program is successful.

I shoulda used it when my brother wiped 6GB of WoW downloads off my computer ):<

2009-02-04 13:58:17

#20

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7030|Cambridge (UK)

Finray wrote:
my brother wiped 6GB of WoW downloads off my computer ):<

deserved, tbh!

Oh and @sydney - think yourself very lucky - these things are why the word 'backup' was invented...

2009-02-04 14:04:00

#21

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

Recuva.

2009-02-04 14:05:23

#22

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7107|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Finray wrote:
my brother wiped 6GB of WoW downloads off my computer ):<
deserved, tbh!

Oh and @sydney - think yourself very lucky - these things are why the word 'backup' was invented...

/meneeds RAID1 tbh.

2009-02-04 14:08:18

#23

CrazeD: Member; +368|6937|Maine

Ah, I see you got it fixed. Nice.

Cheez wrote:
You did a quick format rite?

Quick format is the same as regular format, except regular format runs a chkdsk as well.

2009-02-04 14:12:55

#24

Scorpion0x17: can detect anyone's visible post count...; +691|7030|Cambridge (UK)

Sydney wrote:
Scorpion0x17 wrote:
Finray wrote:
my brother wiped 6GB of WoW downloads off my computer ):<
deserved, tbh!

Oh and @sydney - think yourself very lucky - these things are why the word 'backup' was invented...
/meneeds RAID1 tbh.

*Cue Bertster*

Bertster wrote:
RAID is not a backup solution

2009-02-04 19:32:18

#25

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6703|King Of The Islands

CrazeD wrote:
Recuva.

Recuva doesn't read drives, only partitions.

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