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Accidental HDD Erasure

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by talbotn

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Hi all just a quick question,
I accidentally tagged an existing hdd as a new filesystem whilst doing a clean install on one of my unix boxes. unfortunately this hdd was being used as a backup of all my data at that time. so basically I have a HDD that says it is empty. I am wanting to know is there any way that I can recover the information from this HDD. No data has been written on to the drive since my update but during the update no data was installed on the drive to start with.

BTW I am using FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Talbot Neil

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by joematus

I think you're in deep doodoo. In Unix, once it's erased, it's usaually gone forever. I don't know of any easy way to recover this data. You're best hope is to use a profesiional data recovery company such as http://www.ontrack.com/ and see if they can recover it for you. I understand that they're not cheap and you will have to decide if it's worth the price...in the event that they can recover the data.

Good Luck....

by talbotn

I obviously contacted data recovery specialists straight away and I am looking for an option that will allow me to fix this myself if possible.

by venven

How can you reject that answer? That's the only solution. The only way you can do it yourself is if you are a data recovery specialist and have the tools to recover the data.

You could try typing "Pretty please recover my data" backwards from acommand line.

by talbotn

Unfortunately Data recovery specialists have told me that they cannot recover the data... Please get off the grass and into the real world!!!

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