urgent help needed please

stormchaser · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:39

hi
I have 2 main hard drives c and f , I connected a laptop hard drive via a usb to do a quick reformat on the laptop hdd unfortuately I selected my f drive by mistake and pressed quick format .,,however after a a second I realised I had selected the wrong one and immedietly shut down the pc .

the f drive now says ...the drive in drive f is not formatted . do you want to format it now ?

I am running windows xp and have had a look in the drive with a program called file scavenger and all the files seem to be intact and ok .....is there a quick and easy way to sort this ?

many thanks indeed

cheers

Eclectic · 27 Jul 2010 at 20:42

Theres no quick way that I know of mate. Youll need to run a program like you did and recover everything to another drive. Every write cycle to touch that drive right now erases something on it.

Good luck recovering the files.

jbloggs · 27 Jul 2010 at 21:29

You could try TestDisk

Harpss1ngh · 27 Jul 2010 at 21:47

jbloggs said:
You could try TestDisk

Yeah you can use TestDisk to rebuild the MBR on the hardrive. Formatting just deletes the old file system and creates a new one. The data is still intact.

It's a completely free app. Just don't install it on your F drive, install it on a drive that you're not recovering.

Using TestDisk to rebuild the MBR will allow you to access your data again.

I saw a few tutorials on google showing how to do this.