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

ecskier · 02-28-05, 08:57 PM

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

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!!!!!

CPUonNO2 · 02-28-05, 09:01 PM

Stellar Pheonix Recovery Suite always works for me.

sean478 · 02-28-05, 09:22 PM

if u instaled linux over the data in question ur f@#$ed other than that 50/50 chance of recovery from my experence

sorry

ecskier · 02-28-05, 09:38 PM

nono, didn't install anything over it, just ran a makefs.ext3 command on hda1 instead of hdb1...

I'll try that recovery suite thing and see what happens...

thanks for the help!

hrdwrjnkie · 03-01-05, 11:49 AM

R-studio has always been my choice, and rarelt fails when nothing else has been writtin to the drive. Just make sure that you install the program on, and recover data to, a second drive or partition, preferably a second drive.

telexen · 03-01-05, 11:59 AM

I've used GetDataBack and it's worked WONDERFUL for me...I once suddenly found one of my 40gb HDDs with just all unformatted space...it got everything back for me

02-28-05, 08:57 PM	Thread Starter #1
ecskier Registered Join Date: Jan 2005	I did a baaaad, baaaad thing - recover data from a formatted drive? Yupp... I am one of the dumbasses that is actually capable of accidentally reformatting my entire windows ntfs drive to ext3... 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!!!!!
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CPUonNO2 Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Buffalo, NY	Stellar Pheonix Recovery Suite always works for me. __________________ Nikola Tesla is my hero. Heatware
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02-28-05, 09:22 PM	#3
sean478 Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: arizona (cave creek)	if u instaled linux over the data in question ur f@#$ed other than that 50/50 chance of recovery from my experence sorry
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02-28-05, 09:38 PM	Thread Starter #4
ecskier Registered Join Date: Jan 2005	nono, didn't install anything over it, just ran a makefs.ext3 command on hda1 instead of hdb1... I'll try that recovery suite thing and see what happens... thanks for the help!
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hrdwrjnkie Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Middle of Nowhere and getting lost fast!	R-studio has always been my choice, and rarelt fails when nothing else has been writtin to the drive. Just make sure that you install the program on, and recover data to, a second drive or partition, preferably a second drive.
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03-01-05, 11:59 AM	#6
telexen Member Join Date: Jun 2003	I've used GetDataBack and it's worked WONDERFUL for me...I once suddenly found one of my 40gb HDDs with just all unformatted space...it got everything back for me
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