AHH I FORMATTED THE WRONG PARTITION!!

[Redwingsguy]

I dont know wtf happened, first, I was just reinstalling windows with the disc because my windows was needin a reinstall. But when restarting it freezes. So I push the restat button hoping it would resume. It didnt.

So next I figured, no biggie I can just format and do it from dos, so I boot into dos and type format c:, but somehow that got my d: partition instead of my c: and that was where all my apps, games, 12gigs of mp3s, everything is! I remeber there was a program that can bring this stuff back but I couldnt find the thread it was mentioned it.

BTW: it was formatted last night and never touched, I just hooked the hdd up to my moms computer this morning

 

[bacillus]

I think it's called lost & found by powerquest!

 

[zippy]

/me bows head in rememberance of the partition lost at C:

 

[WHipLAsh13]

You can get lost and found here for free

 

[Viper0329]

Ouch

Sux to be you


Hopefully you can recover it

 

[frazzled]

Been there, done that.....restored a ghosted partition to "drive" instead of "partition" (always wear your glasses when doing a restore.....). Blew away 20 GB of important stuff. :Q:Q:Q

I managed to recover everything that was important by using EasyRecovery by Ontrack, not cheap, but if the stuff is important to you or irreplaceable, check it out here.

Whatever you do, try to avoid accessing the drive any more than you have to, it will limit the recovery.

Good luck,

fraz

 

[nicowju]

hehe I remember when I did this a few times. I formatted the C: partition instead of the D: :|

 

[TNTrulez]

Tip for the future: You have to slow down when formatting. That confirmation displays for a reason. Read it.

 

[agnitrate]

I bet I know how it happened. I bet you're running Windows on NTFS and used a boot disk that can't see NTFS and therefore displayed your other partition as C: . Even if that's not how it happened, that's what happened to me and I know the pain you feel Good luck w/ Lost and Found!

silver

 

[BigFatCow]

damn that sucks.

good timing. see this thread in Hot Deals

 

[djheater]

my tip, always dir before wipe

takes longer but....

 

[Irascible]

RED - EASYRECOVERY IS THE ANSWER!!!!!!!!!!!

Like Frazz said, it's expensive (180 dollors for a 5 megabyte program? sheesh!!!). But there is an alternative. McAfee has the exact same program available as an online subscription service. It's $50 for a one year subscription specifically for EasyRecovery (obviously they have an agreement with Ontrack). And they offer a 30 day money back guarantee right on the receipt!!! Get a working OS going. Obviously don't touch the formatted partion you're trying to recover from. Run the program from Windows. It's utterly amazing.

I formatted my data drive because I had a NTFS partion, just like agn mentioned, last Friday! Lost and Found is so slow because it runs in DOS from a boot disk. EasyRecovery recovered ALL my files (over 5000) with maybe two that were corrupted. It did that in under 20 minutes in Windows XP and in about an hour and 10 minutes in Windows 98.

http://www.mcafee.com/myapps/mer/ov_mer.asp

 

[Redwingsguy]

Well I used my norton system utilites emergency disk's unformatt. I can see the space is recovered, but I cant seem to be able to see anything in the partition!!

And it was a FAT32 drive not NTFS

 

[Irascible]

I tried Norton, but it didn't do anything for me either. My knowledge of this stuff started this last Friday - so I obviously don't know a lot. But, most of these programs avoid touching the partition you're trying to recover data from. So the data Norton may have recovered my be elsewhere on your drive.

Anywho Red, try EasyRecovery!!!! It's awesome.

Edit: ask for a refund before 30 days and it's free too!!!!

 

[Jeff7]

Try the free stuff first - the unformat command. It might not work on a full format, but it costs nothing to try. E-mail me if you don't have the file.

 

[nuttervm]

easyrecovery pro is the way to go

go to google, search for 'fosi' and it will be on his webpage. not that i condone priacy, but its a way to test the software and see if its worth buying

 

[SilverThief]

Oh God Ive done that before as well.......felt like taking my computer and throwing out the front door!
Good luck getting it back.