!HELP! I re-fromatted wrong drive!!

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Hi guys,
so I was re-installing my Win7 when I had the option to reformat my install partition to fit it on.. i clicked the wrong drive to format... my 250GB partition full of pics,vids,games,docs etc.

It took 3 secs to format so could not of been a proper format.... my drive is showing as empty(on that partition).

Can someone please recommend software to "un-format" and get all my data back.
Thanks:)
 
PCsToGo said:
Hi guys,
so I was re-installing my Win7 when I had the option to reformat my install partition to fit it on.. i clicked the wrong drive to format... my 250GB partition full of pics,vids,games,docs etc.

It took 3 secs to format so could not of been a proper format.... my drive is showing as empty(on that partition).

Can someone please recommend software to "un-format" and get all my data back.
Thanks:)
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If you wrote over that partition (with data) - then sorry, but you outta luck..
 
iDenTiTy said:
If you wrote over that partition (with data) - then sorry, but you outta luck..
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I know that... it just formatted by mistake.. the drive is still 240GB free of 240GB!

I am busy trying Data Recovery Wizard... if that fails I will try your suggestions :)
Thanks
 
Haha. Like the tags.
Don't worry. There are numerous apps that will recover your data, albeit not always in the same folder structure or with the same filenames. You can also try Recover It!
 
okay.... VERY GOOD NEWS!!
Data Recovery Wizard has found all my files (and I can view them all) but you need the full version(like $60) to recover it all :(
I will try some of the free programs suggested here :)
At least I know it is still on my HDD!
 
Little question....

Did you restore the data to the same partition or drive? :confused: If so, you just made an :erm:
 
PCsToGo said:
the program said that too but it seems fine... i had no were else to go!
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So the program says don't do it and you do it? Every DR program on this planet is not to be used to restore data on the same drive. You read the warning and ignored it, now your data is lost. Sorry, but I have no sympathy. First rule of using computers, read.
 
teraside said:
So the program says don't do it and you do it? Every DR program on this planet is not to be used to restore data on the same drive. You read the warning and ignored it, now your data is lost. Sorry, but I have no sympathy. First rule of using computers, read.
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Well his folder names are lost. His files have been recovered - hopefully with appended names in cases of duplicate filenames. If all that was lost was data and not complicated application installs - he's recovered. Now it's just up to him to re-organise his pr0n collection - brunettes, blondes, ebony, asian, gypsy, catgirl, granny, furry, etc into the right folders again.
 
bad move man...

best would be to install windows on another drive, instal NTFSRecovery or other.
plug the formatted drive in as a slave, and restore to C:, not to itself (D: ) !
 
PeterCH said:
Now it's just up to him to re-organise his pr0n collection - brunettes, blondes, ebony, asian, gypsy, catgirl, granny, furry, etc into the right folders again.
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you forgot balloon porn.
 
PeterCH said:
Well his folder names are lost. His files have been recovered - hopefully with appended names in cases of duplicate filenames. If all that was lost was data and not complicated application installs - he's recovered. Now it's just up to him to re-organise his pr0n collection - brunettes, blondes, ebony, asian, gypsy, catgirl, granny, furry, etc into the right folders again.
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He missread twice, which means he lost his license to operate a computer. Fail is a virtue for some :p ;) :D
 
teraside said:
He missread twice, which means he lost his license to operate a computer. Fail is a virtue for some :p ;) :D
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Sometimes when you don't have a spare drive but you MUST have the data back that evening, you do make irrational decisions - and most of the time it still works out. Here I guess it didn't.
 
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