Recover from a MHDD Erase command

[frogfrag]

Hello guys!!!

I'm new at the forum but old at using MHDD tool to diagnose disks.

Actually, I just made a mistake and formatted a wrong disk using the erase command, the disk I intented to format had a backup, but not the one really formatted.

I want to know if there's any possibility of recovering data from that disk, using software solutions to scan the driver showed me some files (around 670) that I was able to recover, but I'm not sure if it's possible to recover any more data.

That disk had a lot of important stuff, so if you guys can, please help me out on this one!

Thanks for now!

[harddrivespecialist]

No, ther is no chance if you formated with mhdd.

[labtech]

Did it complete erasing the entire drive?

[frogfrag]

Hi,

Yes, it did complete.

But using qetek's file scavenger i could restore around 600 files and i'm running ontrack easy recovery right now and it already found more than 13000 files, i'm not sure on this but does mhdd really performs a zero fill when it uses BIOS functions to erase the drive?

Appearently (And i really hope so) I'm being able to recover some data, not sure but if it was really unrecoverable no tools could have found any files, right?

Of curse, data can still be corrupt, when it finishes i'll post back with my results, just hope it works!

[dick]

If you are still finding files after issuing the erase command allowing it to complete then the drive was not fully erased!

When this process is carried out correctly then all data is destroyed!

So you might be lucky!

[frogfrag]

That's strange, the process did complete without errors, and almost all data found is the same data I have copies of, anyway, it was capable of finding some files and folders I didn't had a backup. There are lots of currupted data that I'll need to filter, but I think I'm having some progress!

[Vulcan]

@frogfrag,

If I was in this situation, I would look at sectors starting at LBA0 to see how far "into" the drive, the erasure (overwrite) actually progressed. As others have said, if you're finding any data, then something went wrong with the erasure. I have seen this once before...