Need help 2 formatted drives.

[techmanc]

I accidently formatted 2 hard drives a 3TB and a 5TB and I used EaseUS Data recovery to see that the program see the format which I assume it can just repair the drives as is with no need of copying all that file data to another drive.

Beside I would have to go and buy at least 1 5TB drive to make the file copy.

I have no clue what software is out there these days to do the job and buying the software will be a problem with my tight budget so what are the recommendations to get my hard drives fixed Thanks?

 

[Elixer]

Use testdisk, it is free.

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

[techmanc]

after many hours watching my hard drive grinding away I gave up waiting to get a chance at copying the data to a spare drive and where the 2 drives I lost were both backups of my data I did 2 quick formats and moved on...

 

[VirtualLarry]

I accidently formatted 2 hard drives a 3TB and a 5TB and I used EaseUS Data recovery to see that the program see the format which I assume it can just repair the drives as is with no need of copying all that file data to another drive.

Beside I would have to go and buy at least 1 5TB drive to make the file copy.

I have no clue what software is out there these days to do the job and buying the software will be a problem with my tight budget so what are the recommendations to get my hard drives fixed Thanks?

Well, first off, you would be wrong to think it proper to restore files in-place - you MUST copy them to ANOTHER drive, lest you over-write a portion of the original drive that you are recovering, and thus screw up part of the recovery.

 

[techmanc]

Well, first off, you would be wrong to think it proper to restore files in-place - you MUST copy them to ANOTHER drive, lest you over-write a portion of the original drive that you are recovering, and thus screw up part of the recovery.

I was never planning to copy the recovered files to anyplace other than a new drive. I was hoping to be able to fix the drives in place like using chkdsk type function and I didnt see any software that made that possible an where the drives were originally backup drives I just formatted the drives and reusing them for my needs.

 

[Topweasel]

I have had success recovery files with Recuva I think was it's name. Didn't even have to get the paid version to recover files.