I accidentally quick formatted my 2TB HDD PLEASE HELP!

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:25

What software would be best to recover my data. I know it should be ok but god I'm shaking like a leaf and can't think.
Please some good reliable software to get this data back and you guys would be life savers. LITERALLY!. So much of my work is on this drive!!

Thanks SO much in advance to anybody that can help!

Also sorry if this is the wrong section of the forums. Not sure. So worried right now I had no time to think...

EDIT: Currently trying Recuva like mention below. Currently 10 Mins remaining (98%)

. Wish me luck!

chippy08 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:28

Recuva its free.

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:31

chippy08 said:
Recuva its free.

Ah yes. God how did I not remember that. Shall try this now. God I can't believe this. All my college work and everything :mad:

jamesfreddie · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:31

If its that important you should have had a backup anyway.

Surveyor · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:32

Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're using something like Recuva then I think you're going to need another drive to which you can copy the files it finds.

If you copy them back to the same drive then you'll be overwriting files you're trying to recover.

Boozebeard · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:36

jamesfreddie said:
If its that important you should have had a backup anyway.

While this is of course the truth it is also in no way helpful and if anything a slightly irritating thing to say to be people in situations like this.

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:36

jamesfreddie said:
If its that important you should have had a backup anyway.

The majority of them are backed up but I have literately only recent been planning to update my backups as they were getting old and hey presto this happens before I do it. Just my luck

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:38

Surveyor said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're using something like Recuva then I think you're going to need another drive to which you can copy the files it finds.

If you copy them back to the same drive then you'll be overwriting files you're trying to recover.

Hmmm well I've started the scan of the drive. I have a 1TB backup drive (Yes meaning to get a bigger one but the rise in prices put me off). Will have to just backup the most important and just re download the ISO's and stuff that's not as important I guess

chippy08 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:39

Surveyor said:
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you're using something like Recuva then I think you're going to need another drive to which you can copy the files it finds.

If you copy them back to the same drive then you'll be overwriting files you're trying to recover.

He can just recover them to desktop or another folder or another drive.

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:40

chippy08 said:
He can just recover them to desktop or another folder or another drive.

Yeh should be all good. Sadly their is a lot of data on that drive. Should hopefully have enough space between my drives to save it all back!

doyll · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:44

Only recover data from 2TB drive. Don't write anything to the drive you are recovering from as it changes/overwrites what you are trying to recover! Doing so will mean more lost data.

I'm sure you know that, but just to be sure.

Surveyor · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:45

doyll said:
Only recover data from 2TB drive. Don't write anything to the drive you are recovering from as it changes/overwrites what you are trying to recover! Doing so will mean more lost data.

I'm sure you know that, but just to be sure.

I think we already have that covered.

chippy08 said:
He can just recover them to desktop or another folder or another drive.

Anywhere other than the drive he's recovering from.

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:47

doyll said:
Only recover data from 2TB drive. Don't write anything to the drive you are recovering from as it changes/overwrites what you are trying to recover! Doing so will mean more lost data.

I'm sure you know that, but just to be sure.

Yeh somebody just mentioned that. Thankfully they did as I probably would have done it. Safe to say I'm not thinking straight as I'm currently bricking it. God I hope this works XD

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:49

And the worst thing is all my Episodes of Modern Family are on that drive and after a long week sitting down today and watching them I had looked forward to all week. Guess not XD

doyll · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:51

I know your pain... at least part of it. Never formatted over but have lost data because I didn't backup often enough.

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:54

doyll said:
I know your pain... at least part of it. Never formatted over but have lost data because I didn't backup often enough.

I was trying to make one of my USB sticks bootable and using CMD. Accidentally selected drive 1 instead of 3. Instantly **** my self and turned of the PC off as It seamed to be doing it in the background.

Safe to say I will be double checking all my actions in CMD from now on. You would have reckoned I would have learned after locking my self out of a previous machine with it XD.

Hagar · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:55

Desktop will be on that drive if it is the windows drive. It still uses drive space!

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 16:58

nkata said:
Desktop will be on that drive if it is the windows drive. It still uses drive space!

Nope not my Windows drive luckily. Learnt to keep stuff on separate drive after a similar incident a while back.

Got 240GB SSD as OS/Games/Programs Then a 500GB as my Documents and stuff. Then the 2TB for media such as TV Shows/Some backups/College backup/Some other bits

doyll · 1 Jul 2012 at 17:01

At least media can be replaced pretty easily in most cases.

Syther101 · 1 Jul 2012 at 17:01

Does anybody know if Recuva will keep any kind of file structure. God it will be a bitch if it all comes out in one massive dump of files

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EDIT: Never mind. Found a guide on how to use the software and it shows a restore folder structure so it's all good