I did a baaaad, baaaad thing - recover data from a formatted drive?

[ecskier]

Yupp... I am one of the dumbasses that is actually capable of accidentally reformatting my entire windows ntfs drive to ext3... :cry:

Any ideas on how to recover the data using either a bootdisk type of thing or a program that would run under linux (even using wine is fine...)?

I've got a lot of important stuff from the past 2 days that I hadn't gotten a chance to back up yet, so I REALLY NEED TO RECOVER THE DATA!

I know it's possible, just don't know what to use to do it...

Obviously any help would be greatly apreciated!!!!!

[jcw122]

u should have put this in storage...this post wont be seen easlily here

[ecskier]

mmmk, I'll post it there too, thanks for the tip!

[Tatuya]

You shouldn't post two of the same threads in seperate forums. From now on, PM a mod to move it. That is what the previous poster meant I'm sure. Just a tip from a friendly person in the neighborhood.

[shadowdr]

Try testdisk located here. (http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html) It will take a little reading but should be able to retreive your data.