It's a half terabyte harddrive, and I used the program Swiss Knife to do so. The format was from FAT32 to FAT32, so I'm lucky there, and I'm pretty sure it was a quick format. Theoretically, all the files should be intact, and just missing their headers, so I just need to find a way to put them back in. I also haven't written to the HDD since it was reformatted, so nothing should have been overwritten
Edit: I managed to find 2 programs that worked, I'll just leave the list, for anyone's future reference.
I have already tried multiple programs:
1. Active @ Undelete 7: Can't run for some reason..
2. Free Undelete: Doesn't find any files, just the stuff already lying around.
3. GetDataBack for FAT: Also couldn't find the files, after 4 hours of searching, returned same results as Free Undelete. Currently Retesting...
4. Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery: Said that the drive wasn't a functional drive or something like that, after 4 hours of scanning.
5. EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional: Found every file, very quick scan, see better description below.
6. Recover My Files: Unbelievably slow scanning, however, was able to find all the files.
7. Recuva: Only found a single video files
The files being stored were from Mac and from Windows, mostly video files were on there, from family videos, and it would really suck if I can't recover them.
Any ideas?
Edit:
Okay, I managed to do it, Recover My Files and EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard were both able to successfully recover all files, however, Recover My Files took a ridiculously long time scanning the files. Both were able to recover them, file names and all, but EASEUS scanned faster than anything else, and was much more intuitive, apparently it was NTFS somehow, but I remember it being FAT32, so something weird must have happened there. EASEUS did not ask me for much information, it did a quick scan, and provided possible recoveries, in a list from most likely to least likely, the most likely was the perfect recovery, thanks EASEUS!
Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Nov 24 2008, 10:03 pm by Falkoner.
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