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oops ! formatted wrong drive !!!

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by davidai

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hey, accidently formated my slave drive ,when i was formatting c/; ..I didn't unplug my slave (in a hurry)... How can I get my data back,,win98 se..no dos , no unformat,,to be found in windows ..please help...

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by badger

You might be able to get ahold of a old Dos Util called Unformat.. If you HAVE not written anything to the DRIVE?>. Once you write something to it The Original data will be trunctuated and not recoverable..
That My friend may be your only Hope// Undel will not get it the files were not deleted they were written over with a format structure.. Look for Unformat in like DOS5 or DOS6 before they screwed it up

Hope this works for ya..

by dh24

We recently had a situation where a Win98/Fat32 drive was backed up to CD, reformatted at NTFS, then had Win2K installed. While restoring the data from the CD, we discovered the CD was bad and most of the data was not recoverable. The recovery tool "Final Data" was able to find the Fat32 partition under the NTFS partition, and sucessfully recovered 80 percent of the original data. Not perfect, but the user was happier than if nothing was recovered. The program is pricey ($460.) but very useful when you really need it.

by triso

Yes, don't worry, I've done it too. This is a prfect time to start making backups. Daily incrementral backups and regular full backups are now a necessary part of my work day.

I learned from this mistake and I now spend up to 15 minutes a day backing up to CD ROM. It is too much trouble to tell my client I lost all my work. That is the last thing he wants to hear, so I tell him I will spend this billable amount of time protecting his data.
So far none has complained about this and I haven't lost any info, even when the internal IS department took my computer on the weekend and reformatted it to update windows.

by mickeymousenene

you can do what the others say and get those utilities but if you have no other computer you cant dl nothing you can also buy norton system works wich has a dos program on floppy that will unerase your harddrive or you can just start over new and reinstall windows or if you have a restore disk you can use it unless there is some inportant information on the hardrive that you cant get back without using the uninstall i suggest starting over with a clean slate

by davidai

hey thanks guys you were all very helpful..and so is techrepublic...thanks too all and keep up the good work....davidal

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