Holy Crap... I need help please! File recovery

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paradoxblue

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I was formatting some drives. and I accidentally deleted a partition of one of my 2tbs

than I created a new one...

Well my wedding videos were on that partition. I removed the new partition hoping to recover it. but I am unable to find the original.

Theres a butt load of other stuff on there. but thats the folder I NEED.

Does anyone know of a free piece of software I could use? even if I need to pay. I need to recover these?


NO data has been written tot he drive..

Help please

Thank You
 
trying the ntfs version. its finding squat. as if theres completely nothing on this drive. wtf.
 
Restorer2000 Pro (Restorer Ultimate) will see anything that is on there. It's not free though.
 
Search function would save you some hair and frustration (really, there was another thread on this very subject under 24 hours ago). R-Studio will do what you're after. I've used it on numerous occasions and the feedback on this forum from other users of it has been positive for the most part.
 
partition deleted, but i am unable to recover it. at least I dont think I can. so it's running a deep file search. as if wiped. hopefully that will pull up what I am after.
 
Was anything written to the newly created partition after the old one was deleted? It should still be there if not.
 
R-Studio.

It is possible to recover the deleted partition table (i.e. reconstruct it) using Acronis Disk Director. BUT I would advise you to use R-Studio first.

You should be in the clear if you have NOT written any data to the drive since "deleting" the partitions.

If they are as valuable as I think they are, I would recommend you send that to a data recovery specialist.
 
You're fine as long as you didn't perform a full format when you created the new partition. You may end up having to pay someone, but you can get the data back.
 
No a quick format was performed.s o hopefully nothing was lost. its got 8 hrs left on the recover.
 
R-Studio is fantastic and already noted.

EasyRecovery from Ontrack Recovery has paid for itself a few hundred times in my experience (and ownership) of it, fantastic software if you can get it.

TestDisk is open source, somewhat cryptic to use as it's a command line-oriented application, but I've had tremendous success using it.

ZeroAssumptionRecovery is another great product, has come in handy at times.

#1 rule of data recovery: obviously don't write a damned thing to that drive, at all. If it's currently departitioned leave it that way. If it was QuickFormatted as you stated, leave it that way.

One or several of the programs mentioned in this thread so far should net you everything back if all you did was a QuickFormat. EasyRecovery would be the one I'd recommend first and foremost as it grabs backups of the MFT and attempts to scan based on that info - a process the other tools tend to do the hard way and with manual scans picking up whatever comes along.

Either way, good luck... and with a 2TB drive (if it was one big partition) yes, it's going to take a good long time to do this properly. And make sure you've got the destination for the recovered files ready to go - obviously you can't recover them to the same place they already are.
 
Okay guys thanks for all the help. I got the files back for the wedding. The other 1tb of data i may try to recover. but I'm just happy I got these back.

Thanks!
 
As a married geek, I can tell you I am very happy with the happy ending!

Do let us know what you did.
 
BACK THAT SHIT UP, NOW, MISTER!!! :D

Multiple backups, across DVDs, tape, hard drives, online storage, email accounts, FTP sites, Dropbox, what-the-fuck-evarrr... but do back that data up now that it's recovered, with extreme haste. :)

And congrats on the recovery.
 
actually.. one of the programs recovered the list of names, and I searched my laptop. as I new the files on the hdd were a backup but I couldnt find the original.

So I searched the laptop. and found them within my cameras software for downloading.

So I had them all along but those wernt renamed, so I had no way of finding them lol.

All is well. Been burnt to dvd now as well, uploading them to my webserver as we speak.
 
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