Unformat it please!

[MR-Creepy]

so, i was going to format my 8GB usb and i accidentally formatted my main drive 776 GB worth of all the data i will never be able to get again! now there are many ways to recover data i know that

but the problem is what i want is to have everything back the same way it was means every thing in its folder the way it was so is it possible ?

PS as soon as it was formatted i removed it from the computer and shut it down so no data would overwritten

thanks in advance.

[Razor Blade]

How important is the data to you?

 

The safest way is to have a professional data recovery service get your data back. It should be a relatively simple task for them if it was a quick format and not something like writing garbage or all zeros or something like that. If you take the task on yourself you're taking on great risk of data loss and/or corruption. If you're going to attempt it yourself at the minimum making a clone of the disk would be advised (not just an ISO. It needs to be a sector by sector copy)...even then there is a risk of a mistake or problems that could result in data loss.

[seagate_surfer]

If it was just a quick format, you may be in luck and be able to recover it using DIY recovery software. We do offer a DIY software recovery. There are also many 3rd party utilities out there for this, like EaseUS. You'd just have to see what other users chime in they've had success with. 

[MR-Creepy]

yes it was quick formatted i've been using EaseUS for the past hour now, and it looks promising

[Yvette222]

I have encountered a similar case. Scanning the drive with data recovery software will not overwrite the original files. And for your case, if the data have not been overwritten, they should be recoverable. I think third data recovery software can fix your issue. By the way, a software from minitool worked in my case.

[MR-Creepy]

On 4/13/2018 at 4:33 AM, Yvette222 said:

I have encountered a similar case. Scanning the drive with data recovery software will not overwrite the original files. And for your case, if the data have not been overwritten, they should be recoverable. I think third data recovery software can fix your issue. By the way, a software from minitool worked in my case.

i recovered everything successfully, after about 18 hours of loading time with EaseUS  i was able to recover everything with their file structure intact, im in love with EaseUS  <3 , the only problem is that you needed another HDD to recover data on it not ideal for everyone since it was 700+ GB so i wander if there is some other tool that can truly unformat just like "CRT + Z" just like that hehehe , if there is such a tool it would be the perfect one i guess.

[Yvette222]

Glad to hear you recovered everything successfully. Recover data to the drive where you lost your data will overwrite original files, so it's better to save the needed files to another drive.