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NEED HELP! Need to unformat a drive!!

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Lifer
Does anyone know of any good "Unformatting" utils, A buddy of mine decided to format a drive, turns out he did the wrong one.. So I bought SystemWorks 2003 and I am unable to unformat (there is no option that I can see), I am unable to Unerase, or boot to the cd and do a "Easy Recovery". Easy Recovery finds all the files, However easy recovery requires you to have a fat formatted hdd the size of the information that you are trying to restore off the formatted disk.. I have another disk in the system but it is formatted NTFS, and It cannot just restore it on the original disk for some reason...

Anyone have any tips?
 
Are you using Ontrack's Easy Recovery 6.0 or 5.0/5.1? EasyRecovery 6.0 shouldn't have that problem with two differently formatted hard drives.
 
I think I found a tool called FileRecovery.. Seems to be working ok, but you have to save file by file.. Still can't restore directorys for some reason
 
Good luck, theres a very good chance most of the stuff you recover will be garbled.
 
Originally posted by: Jingleheimer
Are you using Ontrack's Easy Recovery 6.0 or 5.0/5.1? EasyRecovery 6.0 shouldn't have that problem with two differently formatted hard drives.
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Use Ontrack Easy Recovery.

Put the drive in another system that has enough storage to copy back all the data you need to recover. Install the program on the system. The big thing here is not to install or load anything on the drive that you formatted by accident. The program will run a test to see what it can recover. You select the directories you want recovered and it will copy them to the other drive. Easy as that. Good luck.
 
Originally posted by: Rufio
my tip is to smack your friend.
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I agree. What a dillweed- how can you know how to format something (you have to have some technical knowledge) and FORMAT THE WRONG DRIVE?
 
Well I'm not.. he is.. The only reason I agreed to help him out, is he had a lot of pictures of dead relatives and such on there.. So far I have found the tools (and I can see the files) but I am looking for an easier route.. I appreciate the helpful tips given in here by the few.
 
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