I am SO pissed at my own stupidity *Update*

[SViper]

I'm still using recover my files. It looks like it's going to take 5+ hours for a full scan on my 80GB HD. It looks like it's picking up a lot of files too. I'll update the OP after it finishes.

 

[FoBoT]

YAPT (yet another pirate thread)

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Even if the drive was reformatted you could probably recover almost all of the data. There are a lot of programs that will be able to find the old files and recover them to another drive. I did the same thing and was able to recover everything.

 

[AlienCraft]

Data does not exist until it is in at least three different formats in three separate locations.

Fudd's First Law of Data.

 

[gsethi]

Originally posted by: SViper
I'm still using recover my files. It looks like it's going to take 5+ hours for a full scan on my 80GB HD. It looks like it's picking up a lot of files too. I'll update the OP after it finishes.

took me overnight to do a full scan. Be patient and hope for the best. If it is picking up files, that is good. When it is done, recover few files from different sectors to see if they are corrupted or fine ?

In my case, only ~1-2% of the files were corrupted but that was b/c I did a quick reformat and nothing much was written on the hard drive.

 

[fstime]

I've recovered pictures from a formated drive before.

 

[AlienCraft]

I feel ya. I'm looking at a desktop machine I need to swap drives on and re install Win2K.
Just so I can get to my QUICKEN files on the C: on that particular machine

 

[thehstrybean]

I've done the same thing. Thankfully, I had a partition that I had backed stuff up on that I had forgotten about...

 

[Lonyo]

I just finished backing up my music collection a couple of days ago.
I also archived most documents onto 2 DVD's, and have them spread over about 4 HDD's, so I'm not likely to lose it all.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
YAPT (yet another pirate thread)

YARRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[SViper]

*Update* Well, it looks like I'm not getting my stuff back, and if I were to get it all back, it would have to rename 50,000+ files, after I found out what they were in the first place. I'm just going to wipe the HD again and start over. I'll just chalk it up as some experience on what not to do again. Thanks everyone for the help.

 

[imported_elwood]

Have you tried Disk Commander (Admin pak)?

 

[Gunslinger08]

Honestly, I have nothing so important on my computer that I would care if I lost it. Music can be re-ripped (or downloaded, for you pirates). Pictures don't mean much to me. Login information can be reset.

 

[apex32]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I'm still bitter about when my RAID 5 array went down, and I lost years and years of pictures... Atleast you can get your music back (eventually).

Yeah, thats bad. At least you can rip/download music back. personal stuff = lost forever

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Consider it a mixed blessing. I highly doubt you used a tenth of those files in the past two years. it's a good chance to purge a lot of the crap you've been hanging onto.

Personally, DVDRs are so cheap I have like 4-5 copies of everything.

 

[apex32]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Consider it a mixed blessing. I highly doubt you used a tenth of those files in the past two years. it's a good chance to purge a lot of the crap you've been hanging onto.

Personally, DVDRs are so cheap I have like 4-5 copies of everything.

QFT, whats what i do also

 

[Eos]

I have used Drive Rescue to recover (shift+del-shift+enter) deleted files, but never reformatted.

I couldn't believe I got most of it back.

 

[n0cmonkey]

WORM

Write Once Read Many

 

[SViper]

Originally posted by: elwood
Have you tried Disk Commander (Admin pak)?

Yea, I tried it, but the only thing it was picking up was the new folders I put on it after the re-format. Either that, or I was using it wrong.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: SViper

Originally posted by: gsethi
I did that once too (Quick format). Was able to recover almost 98% of my music/data with free recovery software.

If you did a quick format, then you still have a chance of recovering most of it. It will just depend on how much data you have overwritten with your ubuntu install. If you did a regular format (long version), then your chances of recovering drop a lot but still might be worth to try.

use couple of free recovery softwares and see what you come up with.

Good Luck (oh, and start backing up your data)

Well, technically, I did a "regular" long reformat twice: Once to install Ubuntu, and once again to change the FS back to NTFS. I don't think my chances are very good. I've got about 10 minutes left on a getdataback scan. I'll see what it comes up with.

Wow. I wiped my RAID-0 array out once because Vista RC2 had issues and I tried to use workarounds and I looked at my array in drive management, and I right clicked and I hit activate thinking it would make my array visible, but my array was still not visible. Then when I boot back into XP, 2x7200.10s collapsed.

I recovered about 98% of it too and GDB took like 3 hrs.. See what you get though. GDB is incredibly powerful

 

[SViper]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Consider it a mixed blessing. I highly doubt you used a tenth of those files in the past two years. it's a good chance to purge a lot of the crap you've been hanging onto.

Personally, DVDRs are so cheap I have like 4-5 copies of everything.

Yea, I guess you are right about purging my unused files. I still had the original freely released Roger Wilco, and all of NVidia's drivers since 3x.xx. I seriously doubt I would ever use that stuff again.

I will get some DVD's though to backup next time. It's just too bad I had to learn this the hard way.

 

[loic2003]

oh well, now that you've lost your Britney Spears and NSync collection you can start afresh and research some decent music

I used to save loads of stuff, but now I just had backups of all my photos (actually priceless) and MP3s (a pain the get back, but possible if you remember what you had/want) on three different hard disks stored in two locations. No need to save downloads now that we have boradband: just pull down the latest drivers/apps as you need them.

As for porn... well that's a different story