Hey all! New to this forum and am looking forward to learning tons about hdds and backing up data. Unfortunately, I have started out on the wrong foot.

I began setting up an old HP desktop as a FreeNas server. I was following a tutorial online when I suddenly realized that I partitioned the wrong external drive attached to this pc. This particular drive contains all of my movies but more importantly my home movies of my family.

I can no longer see this drive when I look under disk management. Have I fried this disk and lost the data or is there any hope for recovery?

The external drive is an HP Personal Media Drive. All help is greatly appreciated!

Try R-Studio trial version. If you will see good results, then you can buy it.

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FreeNAS requires a usb device to be permenantly attached to the machine in order to run. It could be a small USB pendrive. Does not require an internal hard drive or whatever.

The external hard drive you accidently formatted is the one FreeNAS requests? If so then your data were deleted and some has been overwritten by FreeNAS system files.
I agree with harddrivespecialist, run R-Studio on that external drive and see what it comes up with. You will recover a significant amount of data, but you may lose some.

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