Recover data from formatted partition?

Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by Cruise, Mar 8, 2017.

  1. Cruise

    Cruise Registered Member

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    I accidentally formatted my USB (backup) drive, so if anyone has any experience in that regard I'd sure appreciate your recommendation for recovery software that can do the job. :eek:
     
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  2. Minimalist

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    If you haven't written data on it you could get it back. I use Recuva as my undelete tool with some success. Be sure to restore data to your HDD and not to your backup drive.
     
  3. whitestar_999

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    First rule of data recovery is never write anything to the affected drive from which data is to be recovered.If it is a case of 'normal format'(aka windows option) & after format nothing is written to drive then there is a very good chance of recovering almost all data.Just recover data to a separate hdd.
     
  4. kC_

    kC_ Registered Member

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    Best tool I've used is getdataback by runtime software
     
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  6. Scott W

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    Hey Cruise, I did that a couple of years ago and I recovered most of my stuff by using Testdisk and it's companion tool, Photorec (both are free). You will find the downloads and instructions by Googling. Good luck!

    PS. As has been mentioned, be sure not to write anything to that drive! Also save any/all recovered files onto another drive!
     
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    Mini Tool Power Data Recovery worked for me when i deleted photos from camera SD card
     
  8. Cruise

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    Scott, I just wanted to say that your suggestion did the trick! Took some 'intense leanin', but it was worth it. :)

    Thanks!
     
    Last edited: Mar 15, 2017
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