cleary71 Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Can anyone please help me. I was reformatting my computer and I have an external hard drive attached and the computer must have thought that it was the D drive and completely erased everything. Please tell me there is some way of recovering it. I am not holding out hope, but I can't bare to think that all my files are gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdv Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Make yourself a UBCD4WIN and use some of the NTFS Undelete utilities on it.I hasten to tell you the obvious: do not use the drive until the exact moment you're ready to start recovering files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcalvert Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 If all you did was format the drive, then there's a good chance you can get your data back. Whatever you do, though, do not write anything to that drive.PhilP.S. Will be back with more info later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 Try Pheonix Data Recovery !I will recover definitly !... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleary71 Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 (edited) What actually happen, and I have no clue how, was the when I went to reformat and reinstall windows xp it did it on my external hard drive. It made two drives and wrote a copy of windows on one 16 GB drive and just erased the rest of the other 134 GB and wrote a few files. Thank for the advice I will try them now. Edited May 11, 2008 by cleary71 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cleary71 Posted May 11, 2008 Author Share Posted May 11, 2008 Every program I use only gives me the files that are currently on there, not the ones that are lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 you need to do a full sector scan of the disk to discover files and folders since the file allocation table is destroyed. Try Recuva (freeware), which in the latest build added "Deep Scan" (Options>Advanced) support for recovering files from formatted drives. http://www.recuva.com/If that does not work try R-Studio, its not free but it hasnt failed me yet.http://www.r-studio.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted May 11, 2008 Share Posted May 11, 2008 just give a try to Phoenix data recovery tool.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yronnen Posted May 15, 2008 Share Posted May 15, 2008 I managed to erase an external HDD myself not long ago, and I've used GetDataBack to restore the files. I managed to restore almost everything (you need another HDD to restore the files to, you cannot restore files to the deleted HDD).This is not a free program, but you can download a trial version here:http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe43wv Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 When recovering data I use RecoverSoft Data Rescue PC V2.0. It's a free download from the website.http://www.recoversoft.com/download.htmThe only thing is the scanner part is free. If you want to recover anything you have to purchase a license. The free scanner works great, it can scan for folders or or by sectors. It even has a preview feature so you can view word docs. etc. before having to purchase the software. I highly recommend it, easy and works great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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