[HALP] Formatted HDD, lost memories, lost life

[lali]

My worst nightmare just came true. I have an LG 32LN575S smart tv with an external drive plugged in (Toshiba Canvio Basics with Seagate ST9500325AS inside) and somebody (presumably accidentally) formatted it because of the DVR. My question would be that is there any way to recover the data stored on the drive? I had 3 NTFS partitions and I think the new ones are JFS and Ext3.

I will appreciate any help!

[DoubleY]

That title is amazing

 

You can try running a program to recover it, but it's all probably corrupted files at this point. If you do recover any, they'll be half broken most of the time.

You likely won't recover much, if any at all. Sorry for the horrible news

[mindfreak]

try plugging the drive into your pc and run a program called recuva. you might have a slim chance of getting a few things, it is worth a shot . Has worked for me before

 

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[Elven]

@Lala21

 

Hey. It sucks to lose so much important data 

 

You can get recovery programs (although almost all of them require you to buy the software, to recover the files completely). 

 

Google something like "recover lost data".

 

Here is a link to one software you could use:

 

http://quickdatarecoverypro.com/windows-file-recovery.php?gclid=CLbTg-mB3rwCFbPItAod5E4AFg

 

It will probably ask you to buy the software, in order to recover the data.

 

There "ways" *wink wink* to get certain software at *cough* discount... um... yeah  :lol:

 

I hope you get the data back in one piece

 

Elven

[aom]

These recovery programs and only help so much. Formatting a hdd doesn't fully erase everything, but it does damage and screw around with it until the point that once you do recover it, it will probably be a jumbled mess. Worth a try but dont expect to get much or at all.

[lali]

try plugging the drive into your pc and run a program called recuva. you might have a slim chance of getting a few things, it is worth a shot . Has worked for me before

 

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Recuva only supports NTFS and FAT

[qwertywarrior]

Recuva only supports NTFS and FAT

then convert it back to ntfs

i recovered all my files when my bro converted my ntfs hard drive to fat (it worked for me)

 

also as a side note recouva dosnt recover mkv files u have to specifically type in *.mkv to get them back

[airking95]

You can try using PhotoRec it recovers lost files, as long as nothing has been written on the drive after the format, it should be able to recover them.

 

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

[IdeaStormer]

If you continue to try to read the drive you are putting your self even further out from being able to recover anything. At best its something a recovery company should try not you, assuming its data/files that are worth it, they have the tools to do it, but its going to cost you an arm and a leg, literally.

[tacticalpanic]

please anyone reading this thread while its too late for the OP , please please please , back up any data thats important to you , hdd's are cheap as chips , you should allways have a minimum of two back ups , hdds have a 100% failure rate , a finite life span to begin with.

[James_McKeane]

I've use Foremost to recover (or at least attempt to recover) some deleted png files. I gave up because my carelessness led to my system locking up trying to create over 500,000 recovered png files at once. Its really easy to use as long as you're careful.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost_%28software%29

 

Foremost is available on Kali Linux Live distro.

[mgsstar]

+1 on using TestDisk/PhotoRec in recovering your partitions.http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step