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Formatted wrong partition on accident

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Undelete360 may work as well if it's on a hard disk. I've used it in the past, before.

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So I formatted wrong partition that I had all the important files on (pictures, documents). Is there any chance I can recover the files on my own? If yes, then how?

 

 

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Well dont do anything silly like try to write data over it again or else it will be lost for good. I suggest you find some free file recovery software such as Recuvia and give that a shot on the deleted partition.

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Urgh, I doubt you can save it but yes, you can try racuvia and try to bring it to a local specialist if that fails.

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Undelete360 may work as well if it's on a hard disk. I've used it in the past, before.

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Formatting the drive doesn't securely erase the data so you may be able to recover your files

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I forgot to mention that I deleted 2 out of 3 partitions and merged them together. Are they still recoverable?

 

 

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OMG YES. 

 

Undelete360 may work as well if it's on a hard disk. I've used it in the past, before.

Most of the files were overwritten by windows but I got the most important documents out. I am so fucking happy right now!!

 

 

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This seems to happen a lot lately. i've seen quite a few threads like this the last few days.

 

Congratz on the recovery :)

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