Clicked on wrong drive

[hennessy1]

I was running a diagnostic on a few hard drives and I clicked on the wrong drive to erase it. What is the best if any program to get that data back?

 

[C1]

You should have used the built in undelete capability:
http://free-backup.info/how-to-undelete-in-windows-explorer.html

Otherwise you might have to go out to raymond's:
www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/24/top-10-free-data-recovery-software/

 

[hennessy1]

This was through the western digital program there was no undelete.

 

[Ken g6]

Exactly how did you erase it?

I once erased the first few thousand bytes of my hard drive with Cygwin, and had to rebuild both my MBR and my partition table. I lost the first partition but I was able to get the rest back with a combination of the Windows install disk and some Linux utilities under Knoppix.

 

[hennessy1]

I erased it with the WD data lifegaurd program. It allows you to run extended tests and to run a full or quick format. I ran a full.

 

[derrick2237]

http://ntfsundelete.com/