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Other Recover formatted files?

Discussion in 'Tech Support' started by zolki, 30 Jan 2012.

  1. zolki

    zolki What's a Dremel?

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    I have accidentally formatted my hard drive which has capacity of 1 terabyte. Almost all the files are gone! With no explanation! How the hell do I get my stuff back?
     
    zolki, 30 Jan 2012
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  2. saspro

    saspro IT monkey

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    Plug it in to a machine and run something like recuva to get them back. You need another drive of the same size or bigger to recover to.

    DO NOT TRY TO SAVE THE FILES YOU ARE RECOVERING BACK TO THE SAME DRIVE OR IT WILL OVERWRITE DATA
     
    saspro, 31 Jan 2012
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  3. improprietary

    improprietary FT03 is a bitch to watercool

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    unplug it, don't touch it at all or look at it, and then wait for one of the other forum members to help you because i can't remember the name of the software you need to make your "deleted" files visible again. Prepare to expect the worst though

    *edit* someone beat me to the punch :)
     
    improprietary, 31 Jan 2012
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  4. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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    getdataback and photorec are also very nice.
     
    DXR_13KE, 31 Jan 2012
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  5. moorsey

    moorsey What's a Dremel?

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    getdataback is excellent. Have also used recuva, freebie software
     
    moorsey, 1 Feb 2012
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