Deleted Partitions and Reformatted HD - Need to Recover Entire HD
phuschnickens
Beverly Hills, Michigan Member
I deleted partitions and reformatted an entire hard drive. It was the wrong one. I need to recover the ENTIRE disk now. Am i SOL??? I feel like a moron.
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Now that you are upset with me for not positively (positively, as in 'happy') addressing your problem, here's a possible solution. You can try using GetDataBack. If that doesn't work, you are probably left with only one other option - hiring a professional data recovery service. I don't know how valuable your data is.
If you ran a full format, versus a quick format, your probability of data recovery is lower.
Wish I had better news for you.
Do get yourself and external drive. You can use a pre-made kit or buy a separate enclosure and the drive or your choice, PATA or SATA.
I tried 5 recovery programs. All recovered the partition with music (least important).
The 1 program that was most effective is called PhotoRec, which comes bundled with TestDisk. It's an open source, rad program. It can be used on a variety of OS's and a variety of file system types. For Windows, it runs an a cmd window, and has a very crude GUI, but is fairly snappy with getting the job done. The program's recovery is based on filetypes, but the list of filetypes that the user can turn on/off is very long. The only major drawback that I saw is that PhotoRec renames all directories and files. I was able to recover Outlook's PST file, which other program's did not find.
thanks for the help y'all
phu
Thanks