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UNFORMAT/RECOVER? ... PLEASE HELP

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phenix29152

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The worst thing that can happen to anyone when dealing with computers, is for the data to be "deleted" ...

i have a 500gb hard drive ... and i was trying to make two 40 gb partitions with partition magic ... when i clicked ok and hit run, it rebooted the system and ran a batch file and "formatted" my partition.

I thought it was the 2nd 40gb partition ...

I was very wrong, i went into my computer and it was the 375gb partition with ALL, i mean ALL, my stuff that was "formatted".

it was not a deep format, so it did not write 0's everywhere ... i know fundamentally it just played around with the ntfs partition tables to make it look like it "formatted" the drive ... but i know the data is still there.

How can i get it off / recover the partition.

I am so pissed at myself for making a careless mistake ... WOW stupidest thing.

please please help.

BTW: currently using Recuva ... http://www.recuva.com/ same people that make CCleaner.

It has been running for 3 hours "deep inspection" and i can see my HD enclosure light blinking ...

i definitely know data is on it ... how can i get it off? ... and no i am not writing any data to the drive, therefore not writing over the original data.
 
RunTime.org's GetDataBack will fix your woes.

Just make sure you don't put ANYTHING on your external hard drive. Without a partition, the OS will see it as empty space and will therefore overwrite some of your data.
 
i used

Recuva ... it worked fine ... but i know i a missing couple of files that i needed ...

it took about 6 hours to "deep scan" ... got the important files off.
WOW ... never making that mistake again ... and will backup to a DVD or something.

but theory wise ... when you re partition the drive the data is still there just a new partition table is written ... then why cant i just revert back to the old table?


EDIT: However, after looking at Clonezilla in depth ... i am going to give it a try.
 
phenix29152 said:
but theory wise ... when you re partition the drive the data is still there just a new partition table is written ... then why cant i just revert back to the old table?
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Because the old partition table was over-written.
 
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