I think i have screwed up bigtime

[Taiko]

ok here goes,i was trying to make a bootable flash drive and i thought i was doing this to the ext flash drive but it turned out i did it to an 1 TB samsung ext hdd ,so now all i see is this 1 TB hdd with 931 gigs with 128 gigs free [which was the original state of the drive] and when i click to go into said hdd ,its blank nothing to see there.
Now my question is can i reverse this procedure i did from this thread post 5 http://forums.hexus.net/help-technic...knackered.html

[richy19]

weell i dont see how you could of damaged the actual hard drive :S
but im pretty sure the data on it is lost, have you tried re-formatting it?

[Taiko]

i dont want to format ,that would probably work but i would lose the data.

[richy19]

yes but you already have lost it by formatting it the first time
unless you try to use a recovery software or something

[Agent]

You'll need to use something like @Active Undelete (I've had a lot of success with this, when others wouldn't even read the drive) to try and recover the data.

Anything that has been over written however is most likely gone. Either way, you're looking to reformat it at some point to make the disk fully usable again. It's just a matter of if you can get the data back first.

[Taiko]

You'll need to use something like @Active Undelete (I've had a lot of success with this, when others wouldn't even read the drive) to try and recover the data.

Anything that has been over written however is most likely gone. Either way, you're looking to reformat it at some point to make the disk fully usable again. It's just a matter of if you can get the data back first.

Thanks will try this later.

[peterb]

Just to amplify Agent's post - 'all' formatting does is lay down the filessystem on the disk - reformatting resets the filesystem index entries (on an NTFS filesystem) in the master file table. But the data remains intact. So suitable tools may be able to recover some (or if you are lucky) all your data. Resetting the master file table makes the existing data space re-useable, so any use of the drive after it has been reformatted will over write any data there, and significantly reduce the chances of successful data recovery. (The same is true, in principle, for a FAT file system)

[Taiko]

ok guys ,an update for you.since this was an ext drive and i unplugged it straight after this palava ,it seems all was ok.I used active undelete and did a superscan and it saw all my files after scanning and i copied one folder back to C drive and the crc check was fine so i can copy all my files over.All i need now is a new hdd to copy it too and use more bloody caution next time !!

So big thanks to AGENT and you guys for the advice !!

[Agent]

No probs - Glad you got it sorted

[peterb]

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So big thanks to AGENT and you guys for the advice !!

'Thanks' button?

Glad it worked out though.

[Goldfish92]

Don't know if it's too late or you've bought a new drive yet but there is a good MS-DOS app called TestDisk that is a bloody miracle worker...

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...id=1139&page=8

Thats an article that has a kind of how-to on using it and it may be possible to just repair the file table instead of copying the files across manually, worth a shot instead of splashing more cash.

Either way, would recommend people check out that app, saved my ass on more than one occassion

Goldfish92