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Ive just formatted my SLAVE drive by accident, i was ment to format my main SATA drive.

Ive just backed up everything impornant onto my slave, then formatted it by accident, im really tired and ive made a stupid mistake!!

Any way at all i can reserve what ive just done? Or have i lost everything :mad:

Holy crap. Please help, theres things on that drive that are just priceless to me.
 
Surely if you backed up onto your slave there is an original somewhere? Or do you mean you backed up to the same drive as the original then formatted lol
 
Robbie G said:
Surely if you backed up onto your slave there is an original somewhere? Or do you mean you backed up to the same drive as the original then formatted lol
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I have two drives, One is IDE, other (main) is SATA. I put everything important (family photos etc) Onto my slave IDE drive. Ive done this 100 times.

Then id reboot with my xp cd and format my sata drive. But i was really tired and picked the wrong drive. I formatted my slave !!

Arghhh
 
Trippynet said:
Did you do a full format or a quick format?
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i booted from my xp cd, then choose the wrong drive and pressed delete. Then did a quick format on NTFS. Rebooted and realised what id just done :/
 
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As it was only a quick format, a program like GetDataBack should be able to recover your files. You are fortunate to have not done a full format.

It costs but if the data is important to you...
 
This is not as bad as you think. You can recover all your data in the same way the Police would.... :D A format or delete is not a destructive process.

First - isolate your "slave" drive and keep it safe somewhere. Don't "write" anything else to it.

Second - you will need a spare hard drive somewhere to copy the recovered data onto.

Third - file recovery software. For example: http://www.file-recovery.net/recovery.htm or http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm


I had a client once who had formatted his hard drive, then used a Time PC recovery CD to restore all the original PC OS and files onto that hard disk. This did a quick format as part of that operation. Using the "Active@ File Recovery Standard" software listed above, I recovered ALL of the files from the old PC. The software is cheap at that price, and you can download and try out a demo first. :) The alternate link is to free sofwtare I have not actually used, but seen recommended.


Basically, you install your "slave" and "empty" hard drives into a working PC. Then the recovery software will recover any files it can find from your "slave" drive and copy them onto the "empty" drive.


Any questions - just come back here and ask. :D
 
MAllen said:
Any questions - just come back here and ask. :D
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Thanks mate just got in from work, trying the free one first. Will let you know how i get on.

Hades said:
Fraudean slip? ;) :D
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hahaha quality, never noticed that. lol :D

No it aint pron lol You should see the typos i make on chat progs, priceless :D

Infact i had years worth of family photos on it. Photos of myself and my girlfriend that arn't saved anywhere else. All the software for my computer, all the drivers and laptop drivers.

I can download them all again, its not that im bothered about, its the photos. Actually im well upset over it.
 
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i had some files deleted when i used a recovery software i think my ontrack it came out with 9383.mp3/2732.doc etc nothing was in folder it was a mess. hope u get ** stuff back, i know how it feels.
 
Did you do the "full" recovery to a fresh hard disk? This involves pressing the "SuperScan" button and letting it search deep and long. Often retrieves files, but with the wrong file names. Then it is just a case of throwing files into Photoshop to test is they are photos, or into Word to test if they are Word Documents, etc

Worked for me an amazing number of times..... even on full formatted drives!!
 
Will_3rd said:
this is why you unplug drives you've backed up data to
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This is also why you burn all your precious photos onto lots of cheap DVDs and store copies with your friends and families. Blank DVDs are cheap - replaceing digital photos is impossible.

When backing up - expect the unexpected. I usually scare my clients by pointing out that many of the companies in the Twin Towers backed up their data to the other building "Because nothing would ever effect both towers at the same time...."
 
MAllen said:
This is also why you burn all your precious photos onto lots of cheap DVDs and store copies with your friends and families. Blank DVDs are cheap - replaceing digital photos is impossible.
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I have all my most important data (photo's,account texts,passwords etc ) repeated copyed on almost all my harddrives (about 5 harddrives)....

I know this maybe a little over the top..But i have loss very important data before because of harddrives dieing and format mistakes etc...
 
chaparral said:
I have all my most important data (photo's,account text,password etc ) repeated copyed on almost all my harddrives (about 5/6 harddrives)....

I know this maybe a little over the top..But i have loss very important data before because of harddrives dieing and format mistakes etc...
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Ah... so you learnt the same way as the rest of us about backup? LoL :D

But please tell me that these hard disks are not all in the same house? Connected to the same electrical supply ready for that lightning bolt? :D (Mischievous comment I know.... but I have see what happens to a house full of electronics when it gets a direct hit... very messy.)
 
MAllen said:
This is not as bad as you think. You can recover all your data in the same way the Police would.... :D A format or delete is not a destructive process.

First - isolate your "slave" drive and keep it safe somewhere. Don't "write" anything else to it.

Second - you will need a spare hard drive somewhere to copy the recovered data onto.

Third - file recovery software. For example: http://www.file-recovery.net/recovery.htm or http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm


I had a client once who had formatted his hard drive, then used a Time PC recovery CD to restore all the original PC OS and files onto that hard disk. This did a quick format as part of that operation. Using the "Active@ File Recovery Standard" software listed above, I recovered ALL of the files from the old PC. The software is cheap at that price, and you can download and try out a demo first. :) The alternate link is to free sofwtare I have not actually used, but seen recommended.


Basically, you install your "slave" and "empty" hard drives into a working PC. Then the recovery software will recover any files it can find from your "slave" drive and copy them onto the "empty" drive.


Any questions - just come back here and ask. :D
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Ive bought the software, i got some photos back not all of them. I used the search where it lists the file types. And went thought them all.

Im not sure how to get back all the software tho. There is no catagory for exe's. Its put up loads of partiions, only one of them says "exellent" The others say poor, and very bad, and is full of jiberish :(
 
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