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Compstuff

Post subject: Hopefull

Posted: February 25th, 2013, 18:42

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 18:36
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Location: Miami, FL

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 :oops:

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 25th, 2013, 18:44

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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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!

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Compstuff

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 25th, 2013, 19:01

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 18:36
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Location: Miami, FL

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

Spildit wrote:

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.

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Compstuff

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 25th, 2013, 19:02

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 18:36
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Location: Miami, FL

Thanks!!!

pcimage wrote:

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!

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pcimage

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 26th, 2013, 3:28

Joined: November 29th, 2006, 10:08
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Spildit wrote:

Good advice

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st3283

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 26th, 2013, 3:33

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 7:10
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Location: Lucknow,India

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

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Nick_CT

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 26th, 2013, 5:28

Joined: September 5th, 2010, 12:29
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Location: South Africa

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

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Compstuff

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 26th, 2013, 10:13

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 18:36
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Location: Miami, FL

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

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Compstuff

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 26th, 2013, 10:16

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 18:36
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Location: Miami, FL

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

st3283 wrote:

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

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st3283

Post subject: Re: Hopefull

Posted: February 26th, 2013, 10:19

Joined: February 25th, 2013, 7:10
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Location: Lucknow,India

you can also try recuva sometime works fine..

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