Hopefull

[Compstuff]

I did such a STUPID thing today... I was formatting some USB flash drives and knew I should have stopped because I worked for 13 hrs and was over tired and sure enough I selected my 1 TB USB WD book and pressed format... as soon as I realized I unplugged the drive so it stopped but now of course the table is shot so its unreadable. What are my chances of recovery? Any help & suggestions would be appreciated... I am going out for a large drink

[pcimage]

Download some demo versions of decent software like "getdataback" "rstudio" or similar and see if they find your data. If they do, then buy a licence.

Good luck!

[Compstuff]

Can I used the partition mount on the clone drive that I made the image on?

THANKS very much for responding... I am freaking out here

And don't recover the files to the same drive !!!!

Alterantive - Get another 1TB drive, clone the "formated" one with the data you want to retrive to the new one (be carefull not to clone the new drive on the one you want to restore instead) and use something like testdisk.

Another option is to try partition find and mount on the drive that you formated and see if it can mount it and see the files.

[Compstuff]

Thanks!!!

Download some demo versions of decent software like "getdataback" "rstudio" or similar and see if they find your data. If they do, then buy a licence.

Good luck!

[pcimage]

And don't recover the files to the same drive !!!!

Alterantive - Get another 1TB drive, clone the "formated" one with the data you want to retrive to the new one (be carefull not to clone the new drive on the one you want to restore instead) and use something like testdisk.

Another option is to try partition find and mount on the drive that you formated and see if it can mount it and see the files.

Good advice

[st3283]

testdisk's photorec is good option but you should have another 1 tb hdd to save your data....
Good Luck..

[Nick_CT]

Try Data Rescue for PC, I've had it give better results than R-Studio and others on some recent jobs.

[Compstuff]

You guys are all awesome thanks very much for the responses... I am trying the recovery today and will report back

[Compstuff]

Interesting that you mention PhotoRec because the drive is FILLED with mostly training videos

testdisk's photorec is good option but you should have another 1 tb hdd to save your data....
Good Luck..

[st3283]

you can also try recuva sometime works fine..