2tb recovery =O

[it30rivers]

k well here is my little tale of misfortune.
one day whist i was at work my idiotic brother decided he was going to get some videos off my HDD (2tb).
he gets the videos he wants but then he accidentally kicks the usb port in the back of my HDD. because he left it on the floor while he was copying the files. he then proceeds to say that it can probably be fixed but its not his problem because its not his HDD. so i try to fix the usb port to no avail. so i end up buying a new enclosure for the HDD (there is two 1tb drives). after putting them in the new enclosure it tells me that the drive is unusable until i format it. i then think to myself that this will be fine as i will then have my HDD working again and can then just recover the files with Recover my Files. so i do a quick format as to not loose as much data. and start scanning for the files with Recover my Files (latest version).

the scan takes 4 days......

after the scan finishes the first thing i do is save a CSV list of the files found. this is so i don't loose 4 days of waiting. i then proceed to try and recover the files back to whence they came. however here is the dilemma. Recover my Files does not allow you to recover the files to the same places that they came from. and after thinking about it this makes sense, if it recovers it in the wrong order the files that have not been recovered could be overwritten. so now i need another 2tb drive to recover the files too. however none of my friends have a spare 2tb and nor do I. so i decide that until i can get another 2tb drive i will leave my current one alone. so i close Recover my files, BAD FUCKING MOVE recover my files can export a CSV (comma separated values list) with the location of the files but cannot import them.

MY 4 DAYS ARE LOST.

and i still have no 2tb drive extra to recover the files too.

So my question is what should i do?

is there a way to recover the file back to the exact same position they originally were? is there another program which CAN import a CSV list so i don't have to do another 4 day scan.?

so just to clarify: i have 2 x 1tb drives now in a new HDD enclosure. i have scanned for the files which is now saved in a CSV list. I have no where i can recover my 1.5tb of data to. can i recover the files back to the exact same position on the drive as it is now? or do i need to buy another 2tb drive (which i really dont want to do)?

PLZ I NEED MY FILES BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[HDD Spaz]

1. you need another hard drive

2. The files may not work as the RAID might be corrupt.

3. Very stupid move formatting the disk and thinking data recovery software is fail safe.

[xsoliman]

If the original enclosure gave 2TB from the 2*1TB drives, it must has spanned or striped them.
Is the new enclosur the same make, and did you put them in the same order
and did it present them as a 2TB drive

If the drives, in the new enclosure, are set up excatly the same as before, and the quick format has only 'reinitialised' the first part of the drive
then theortically you can recover/fix up the deleted files in place
but its a risk
(and sorry cant suggest a tool to do it)

PS I assume the .CSV shows all (or most of) the files you were expecting

Can you start a rescan, and after it has found a few files just cancel the scan and try to recover those few files to spare space on your C: drive, just to prove they are recovered ok ?