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| Author: | sztraka1234 [ July 6th, 2011, 3:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Accidentally Formatted HDD |
Hi, last night i used a program (HP USB disk format tool) to format my USB stick & make it bootable. When i first launched the program my 500gb WD USB HDD was automatically selected in the drop down menu, so i changed it to my 4gb USB stick which i wanted to format. I selected Quick Format & it came up with some error (I cannot remember the exact error) "Cannot complete operation" And now whenever i click on my 500gb WD HDD in My Computer it asks me if i want to format it. The drive was formatted as a exFAT. Is there any tool that will restore the Partition on the disk ? Thanks. |
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| Author: | sztraka1234 [ July 6th, 2011, 5:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Accidentally Formatted HDD |
UPDATE: I came across a free tool called TestDisk & managed to restore my partition. All is good now. |
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| Author: | tonyc [ July 13th, 2011, 19:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Accidentally Formatted HDD |
You are extremely lucky. If you are using Windows Vista or Windows 7 and had NOT selected the quick format, your data would be gone. Beginning in Windows Vista the format utility WIPES a drive when the full (NOT Quick) format is used. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941961 TonyC |
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