OH CRAP

Camalot · 7 May 2007 at 20:23

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.

Camalot · 7 May 2007 at 20:38

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

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

Camalot · 7 May 2007 at 20:42

Trippynet said:
Did you do a full format or a quick format?

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 :/

Camalot · 8 May 2007 at 12:51

MAllen said:
Any questions - just come back here and ask.

Thanks mate just got in from work, trying the free one first. Will let you know how i get on.

Hades said:
Fraudean slip?

hahaha quality, never noticed that. lol

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

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.

Camalot · 8 May 2007 at 16:31

I ran the demo it diddnt find everything.

Found wow screenshots

Camalot · 9 May 2007 at 18:28

MAllen said:
This is not as bad as you think. You can recover all your data in the same way the Police would.... 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.

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

Camalot · 9 May 2007 at 19:08

Thanks for your help. I did have a read of the help file first and i did the superscan. Quickscan diddnt find any of my files.

Ill try get my hands on IrfanView

What about software ? Like .exe files?

Camalot · 9 May 2007 at 19:37

I can drag and drop files into notepad

I used a hex editor once, but that was years ago, wouldnt know how to anymore.

Camalot · 9 May 2007 at 19:48

Nelly said:
You put your foot in it there mate! lol hahaha

Thats already been said mate

I wouldnt pay for software just for pron, id just dl it again !

Camalot · 8 Jun 2007 at 18:54

nolimit said:
this just happend to me and i have 10 years worth of photos and coursework, and important documents!!!

It is bad idea having same branded hdd as master / slave, the coding is very similar and i just deleted the wrong 1.

Hopefully this active file recovery does the business.

Next on my shopping list are IcyBox external hdd enclosure and Hitachi 500GB HDD.

goodluck mate it found quite a lot of photos of mine but diddnt find others