colemancb Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 (edited) Well, I'm pretty much bouncing off the walls right now. I was installing Windows 2000 and accidently told it to format the wrong drive. In the installation, I went by the drive letters, and basically it told mixed up my C and D drives, so it read my boot drive (the one I wanted to wipe) as the D drive, and the drive with all my data as the C drive.I am running some random tool I found called Zero Assumption Recovery, dunno how good it will do. I had over 11,000 songs on there, stuff for work that is irrecoverable, stuff for school that is irrecoverable, etc...Please don't give me a lecture on backing things up. I can't just drop $150-$200 on an external drive, and it was certainly not feasible to burn data to DVDs. If this is all you're going to say to me, please, don't. It wasn't a hardware failure...simply an accident.What are my options as far as unformatting goes? Are there any?EDIT -- The drive is now being reported as 74GB instead of 120GB..... :-( Edited September 15, 2007 by colemancb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 what type of format did you do? quick or normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 ....I am running some random tool I found called Zero Assumption Recovery, dunno how good it will do.....What are my options as far as unformatting goes? Are there any?The idea is to ask for help BEFORE using an app. However, if you just quick formatted the drive, you can try with TESTDISK:http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDiskor you can try with its "counterpart" photorec:http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRecto recover the files.You will need another drive with enough space for the recovered files.If you have a few bucks to spare and the drive was NTFS, these two COMMERCIAL apps are very good:http://www.diydatarecovery.nl/iUndelete.htmhttp://www.quetek.com/prod02.htmThe "poor man's" option is this one:http://memberwebs.com/stef/software/scrounge/jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colemancb Posted September 15, 2007 Author Share Posted September 15, 2007 Thanks for the help. It was whatever kind of format the WIndows 2000 Setup performs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 Thanks for the help. It was whatever kind of format the WIndows 2000 Setup performs.Full format that is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 If you reformat and then do not write anything to do the drive after you get into Windows, and use a data recovery tool like Recuva (freeware) or R-Studio or Runtime GetDataBack, and scan over a network connection, I'd say you have a good chance of getting your data back.However, most people immediately install all their programs again and are then beyond the point of a typical software-based recovery.This is why we make backups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 If you reformat and then do not write anything to do the drive after you get into Windows, and use a data recovery tool like Recuva (freeware) or R-Studio or Runtime GetDataBack, and scan over a network connection, I'd say you have a good chance of getting your data back.However, most people immediately install all their programs again and are then beyond the point of a typical software-based recovery.This is why we make backups.that will only work if you do a quick format Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcarle Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 You never mentioned if you finished the Windows 2000 installation. Because if you did, get some kleenex and start crying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Soul Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 You never mentioned if you finished the Windows 2000 installation. Because if you did, get some kleenex and start crying.ouch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 that will only work if you do a quick format False. I was able to recover data with R-Studio fully intact on areas of the drive that had not been written to as much as others after 6 reformats (full format). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Looneyboy784 Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 Lol this happened to me about 2 months ago. What I did was buy this software called active partition recovery (it is actually a bunch of different app including DOS floppy versions and windows PE) and installed windows on another hard drive. I ran the software which scanned the drive found and restored the data. Since then I have used the software for all sorts of data recovery related tasks. I recommend this software as it has save my a** too many times to count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
03GrandAmGT Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 R-Studio with out a doubt. :thumbup Saved my A$$ many times even a week after it was gone from the server. They have a limited demo that you can try to see if it will bring the file back. http://www.r-studio.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 a program that worked for me is called Get Data Back NTFS, there's a Get Data Back FAT as well.but as advised before, do it over a network if possible, if not, make it a slave and do it in another computer, but make sure you have the hard drive space you need for recovering.not to beat a dead horse, but might i suggest and external enclosure for a hard drive, and moving the data drive into that? external enclosures are cheap, and they don't require you to buy a hard drive.i've done similar things in the past, so i know the feeling of losing several thousand songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ripken204 Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 that will only work if you do a quick format False. I was able to recover data with R-Studio fully intact on areas of the drive that had not been written to as much as others after 6 reformats (full format).actually you are right. i just reasearched it and neither the quick of the full format erases any data. i was told by multiple people that the full format writes over the entire disk, but that apparently is not true. i need to tell at them now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroshift Posted September 16, 2007 Share Posted September 16, 2007 [...]i need to tell at them now You mean you need to yell at them And as to the OP, i second R-Studio too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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