Mistaken format

You can unformat the drive by using fdisk,but you will lose all data on the drive unless you do a backup
Boot computer with startup disk and
At the command prompt type in Fdisk /mbr
Next type in Fdisk
Choose option (1) to delete the primary patition,you then proceed to follow the on screen instructions to partition and format the drive as you wish
Hope this helps

How did you accidently format the hard drive? In DOS you had to format /u (for unconditional) otherwise the program left a record of the operation on the disk and you could recover it to the previous state. You may be able to do this.

Kep

Try with format /u, booting the system in D.O.S. with the same O.S. level and format.com version.

Sorry, NO.

If you formatted using the /u command, sorry, your data is gone.

Paul.

There are some data recovery programs on the market that claim to be able to. They usually work from dos.

If the data is real real important you might want to contact a data recovery specialist before you massage that disk to much.

By using the unconditional switch you are probably sol.

Good Luck
Lee

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