can I unformat a harddrive I just formatted?
I have a 300 GB SATA harddrive which runs on a MS K8N NeoPlatinum MB using Windows XP Pro w/ one GB memory. I had the hard drive partititioned into two volumes, C and D. I installed a new hard drive and reinstalled windows on the new drive and then before:banghead: I moved the data to the new drive I formatted the old drive. I formatted the C volume of the old harddrive and not the D. I am desparate to recover the data from the old drive, can I undo the format? Is there any way to recover the data??:banghead: :banghead:
thanks for any help.
thanks for any help.
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Check it out and if you need help, I'll try to help you. BTW... DON"T DO ANYTHING with the drive though. Don't want to start writing over your data!!!
thanks, I'll check it out.
thanks
Not usually, when you format it's like getting rid of the table of contents in a book and having no way of knowing where you're going after that. The rest of the book goes blank. The info still exists, but the ground it was/is stored is open for writing on again. Thus why it was mentioned not to do a THING with that drive due to information being written over and making it impossible to recover.
QCH is better at this than myself, but it's never a guarantee that you'll get any information back.
Tex
Formatting is like erasing the table of contents in a book and the page numbers. The chapters are still there somewhere, but you need to use a recovery software to copy them over to a new drive.
I used to use that app at work, works very well :thumbup
Hi Tex,
I have a similar problem that I put a message in Short-Media > Hardware > Storage area. I definitely need some help with this one, as I have over 200 Gig of pictures that I've lost!
Thanks in advance!
Ron
lol and actually I got an email from icrontic YESTERDAY saying this thread had a new reply., so I checked in for fun just to see who if anyone I knew was still hanging around. Uhhh Hi Prime! (grin)
I just logged in and replied to the last post I didnt see it was from 2007. (rolls eyes...)
Tex
Deleted before you got here
...but did he clean the dust from behind his ears?
Mark, where the hell you been? check your pm's
your avatar would like awesome with black sunglasses and a blues brothers hat actually prime. (wink)
Tex
..and I loled.