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HELP! Just quick formatted the wrong drive

rudeguy

rudeguy

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Was doing a Windows 7 upgrade from Vista. I wanted to do a clean install so I wanted to format my C drive. I had already backed up EVERYTHING to my D drive. Its literally 900+ gigs of stuff I lost.

I know its not gone since nothing has been wrote to the drive yet. What software can I use to recover my data?

Please help me...please please please
 
good luck and let us know how it goes! i've never used that program either but if you haven't done anything else with the drive you should be ok.

also, you should make sure to keep current backups as well!
 
rudeguy said:
I know its not gone since nothing has been wrote to the drive yet. What software can I use to recover my data?
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One of the first things you should do is NOT have the drive powered on till your intend to start recovering from it. Windows will write to the drive for just routine stuff like file checking each time you boot and that could destroy an important file or document.

Lots of good options, what you want is partition recovery software. The file table was marked as not current so the data and original table are still there. You just need to set a few bits .

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
 
Thanks. I'm still running the recuva on it. Its a 1TB drive, so it said its going to take 4 hours just to scan. We'll see what happens.
 
I wiped out the data drive instead of the OS drive once. I used NTFS Recovery and got everything back. The program was $100, but I was panicked about the data and it worked great.
 
This is why I always unplug the data drive before reformatting. You can't really screw it up if it isn't there.
 
tomt4535 said:
This is why I always unplug the data drive before reformatting. You can't really screw it up if it isn't there.
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You also can't really screw it up if you're coherent enough to pay attention to the drive size.. seeing as how I doubt (well, hope) that people are using smaller/faster drives as the OS drive and large drives for their storage.

Would be pretty difficult for me to accidentally format the 200GB SSD raid0 over the 4TB raid5. Every single screen giving me the option to do so show's the platter size of the drives in question.
 
Saga said:
You also can't really screw it up if you're coherent enough to pay attention to the drive size.. seeing as how I doubt (well, hope) that people are using smaller/faster drives as the OS drive and large drives for their storage.

Would be pretty difficult for me to accidentally format the 200GB SSD raid0 over the 4TB raid5. Every single screen giving me the option to do so show's the platter size of the drives in question.
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Yep. My system drive is 500 and storage is 1tb. I just clicked on the wrong one.

Looks like its savable but its going to take a day to run
 
I shift+deleted my backup folder accidentally... Twice. Had to ran data recovery app for 20 hours to get 900GB back. All files over 4GB are lost forever.
 
metalmania said:
That's why I gave my son two laptops, one in the bedroom, the other in the living room. He doesn't touch my desktops.
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This is his desktop. I kept my backups on there because I was too lazy to move them.

Plus...don't forget. I'm the one who screwed up in the first place.
 
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