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I think I just formatted my 80 gig drive with all my files on it.
Well at least alot of my warez files and probably some porn.
Not sure if eraser will be able to recover them.

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If you told teh computer to format a drive, but kow that it never did, is it possible to recover the files? I did that to one of mine and I need them back.

well that was a stupid thing to do

Well I had two hard drives.
Installed windows on the 1st one and updated it all.
Then I decided to check it with Partition Magic.
Well it couldn't see it because of some error. So I disconnected the 2nd drive and did an fdisk and cleared up the first hard drive.
Hooked up the 2nd hard drive and thought I'd format the 1st hard drive and then install windows.
Well when I plugged in the 1st hard drive it didn't connect properly and I formatted the 2nd thinking I was formatting the 1st one.

andyman wrote:If you told teh computer to format a drive, but kow that it never did, is it possible to recover the files? I did that to one of mine and I need them back.

wb andyman, sorry about the whole banning thing :lub:

heh no prob bob

andyman wrote:If you told teh computer to format a drive, but kow that it never did, is it possible to recover the files? I did that to one of mine and I need them back.

You can most likely recover the files, but it will be expensive as hell.

this is what happens to people with drives stuffed with warez and porn.

it had all my pictures and videos from last years deployment. and some other things, but mostly those.

How much money are we talking about here? It's a 200gb hard drive

$70 last week at compusa

CompUSA doesn't do anymore than you could do at home though. I had a buddy who took a drive in -- it wasn't even formatted or written over, they drive had just failed. They tried slaving it and hooking it up to a different PC and couldn't get it to work. They charged him like 40 bucks. Never tried putting the platters in a different case or anything.

I stay away from CompUSA if I can anyway.

File Scavenger did the trick for me when my disks ruined for some reason and the disk wasn't working unless I formated it all over. Had to copy it out though to another disk, then format and put everything back.

CrinklyArse wrote:

andyman wrote:If you told teh computer to format a drive, but kow that it never did, is it possible to recover the files? I did that to one of mine and I need them back.

wb andyman, sorry about the whole banning thing :lub:

BWAHAHAHAH

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:$70 last week at compusa

i was talking about BUYING a drive from a brick and mortar. you got me wrong.

i'd buy a new piece of gear before taking it to be fixed.

Oh. Well he doesn't need a new drive, he just wants his data off the old one.

If you're talking about andy though, he could buy a new one that's the same model as his old one, and swap the platters out and get the data that way.

R00k wrote:Oh. Well he doesn't need a new drive, he just wants his data off the old one.

If you're talking about andy though, he could buy a new one that's the same model as his old one, and swap the platters out and get the data that way.

yep, was pointed at Andy.

@ $70, who cares. everyone can afford that.

riddla wrote:50/50 chance, could have a bad boot sector.

A bad boot sector won't keep you from reading it, only keep you from booting to it.

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

R00k wrote:Oh. Well he doesn't need a new drive, he just wants his data off the old one.

If you're talking about andy though, he could buy a new one that's the same model as his old one, and swap the platters out and get the data that way.

yep, was pointed at Andy.

@ $70, who cares. everyone can afford that.

Yeah but those pictures are priceless....I'll take a looksy for some recovery programs next week. thx

i'd shoot myself if i was you *shakes head*

FragaGeddon wrote:.
Not sure if eraser will be able to recover them.

Edit:

He's out right now.

andyman wrote:

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:

R00k wrote:Oh. Well he doesn't need a new drive, he just wants his data off the old one.

If you're talking about andy though, he could buy a new one that's the same model as his old one, and swap the platters out and get the data that way.

yep, was pointed at Andy.

@ $70, who cares. everyone can afford that.

Yeah but those pictures are priceless....I'll take a looksy for some recovery programs next week. thx

Just search google for file recovery. I've found a few that work fairly well. RecoverMyFiles, REST2514 and FileRecoverXP should all do what you're looking for.

If what you're saying is correct anyway, and the format never occured.

Don't know why I said eraser when I was thinking restoration.
Going to a couple stores tomorrow and see what programs they have.

Try using Recover My Files. I am using it now and it is working.

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