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21 minutes ago, Voltz said:

Can you guys help me recover my formatted drive? i wasnt suppose to format that drive and i had lots of family photos on that drive... Please Help

Don't try recovering the partition table just yet. Get the files themselves. Whatever you do, don't write onto the drive. 

So what you need is a second drive that you can save the recovered files onto. Then a program that can read the data off of the formatted drive.

 

Piriform recuva is one decent and free software: https://www.piriform.com/recuva

I've had loads more luck with Photorec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec It's not as easy to use though. But it's also free.

The best I've come across is EaseUS data recovery, but that's paid http://www.easeus.com

 

EaseUS can get you your filenames and folder structure too. The other two just get the files with on-the-go-generated names and dump them all in a single heap. They do retain the metadata though, so you can then rearrange the photos according to something like date taken. I'd suggest starting with Recuva, then re-doing the scan with Photorec. That's how I usually go about this.

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Can you guys help me recover my formatted drive? i wasnt suppose to format that drive and i had lots of family photos on that drive... Please Help

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Thats not so easily done.. Unsure how to go about either..

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It's not cheap, but I'd send it to a professional data recovery service. 

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I think easeUS has a recovery option if i remember correctly. Never used it myself though.

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3 minutes ago, Voltz said:

Can you guys help me recover my formatted drive? i wasnt suppose to format that drive and i had lots of family photos on that drive... Please Help

Data recovery is possible as long as you didn't write anything on the formatted drive.

 

This freeware allows you to recover data from formatted drives: http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-formatted-partition.htm

 

 
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I have had much success with easeus in recovering deleted/formatted drives.

One annoying this is that you will likely lose all filenames and folders but the majority of the files will be there, buts with names like "doc00000001" etc.

When in doubt, re-format.

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no i immediately disconnected the drive.  

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im using easeus, hopefully i can get all my files back, thanks you guys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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21 minutes ago, Voltz said:

Can you guys help me recover my formatted drive? i wasnt suppose to format that drive and i had lots of family photos on that drive... Please Help

Don't try recovering the partition table just yet. Get the files themselves. Whatever you do, don't write onto the drive. 

So what you need is a second drive that you can save the recovered files onto. Then a program that can read the data off of the formatted drive.

 

Piriform recuva is one decent and free software: https://www.piriform.com/recuva

I've had loads more luck with Photorec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec It's not as easy to use though. But it's also free.

The best I've come across is EaseUS data recovery, but that's paid http://www.easeus.com

 

EaseUS can get you your filenames and folder structure too. The other two just get the files with on-the-go-generated names and dump them all in a single heap. They do retain the metadata though, so you can then rearrange the photos according to something like date taken. I'd suggest starting with Recuva, then re-doing the scan with Photorec. That's how I usually go about this.

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