Data recovery and disk repair questions and discussions related to old-fashioned SATA, SAS, SCSI, IDE, MFM hard drives - any type of storage device that has moving parts
August 14th, 2012, 10:59
I was formatting a thumb drive when I accidentally formatted my 1 terabyte passport. My problem is that most programs won't find anything recoverable except for one program called Convair which allows me to select the drive witch is H and do a search for logical drives within that drive. After searching It finds a drive called Passport 1000 [LOST] on windows drive H. All files and folders are in order except for a few files. My question is, is their any way to make that logical drive active so I can use the drive normally? Or will I be copying file by file to a "NEW not yet purchased" 1 terabyte drive as this one was filled to 95% capacity with about 1500 Movies. Huge personal data loss and excessively time consuming.
Hope I explained myself and my problem properly.
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Dmath1n
August 14th, 2012, 11:07
Another drive is needed to recover the files to.
Suggest to recover a few sample files first and check to see if they are corruption free, so that you do not extract everything and then you will have wasted your time.
Though the best course of action is yet needing another drive to clone this formatted drive.
August 15th, 2012, 3:03
First off if you formatted this drive it needs to be cloned and not worked with. You can clone it to another drive. Then try to use RStudio for free and see what it can recover. If it works then you can purchase this and get back your data. A lot of stuff will not get back your files with normal file names on them it will get them back as raw data files and you will have to rename them all.
Best advise is do not work on bad drive, formatted drive, drive with deleted files you want to find again. The more you work on such a drive the larger change you will have of complete data loss or at least some of your data lost.
August 15th, 2012, 8:19
poehere wrote:First off if you formatted this drive it needs to be cloned and not worked with. You can clone it to another drive. Then try to use RStudio for free and see what it can recover. If it works then you can purchase this and get back your data. A lot of stuff will not get back your files with normal file names on them it will get them back as raw data files and you will have to rename them all.
Best advise is do not work on bad drive, formatted drive, drive with deleted files you want to find again. The more you work on such a drive the larger change you will have of complete data loss or at least some of your data lost.
Why the use of cloning the drive and if so what program can you recommend? Also will RS studio not find files on the drive as it is now? Also will it be able to find the lost partition after cloning the drive?
Thx.
August 15th, 2012, 8:30
The idea with cloning is that the goal is minimize any possible further damage to the drive you need to recover data from.
You never know how the drive can fail in the middle of scanning or extracting data. Then you have a much bigger problem than when started.
Additionally, there are other functions running in the background that could affect the data on the drive.
Hope this helps a bit.
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