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    How to recover my data for my External HDD??? data lost by format HDD.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by asdfzxcv, Oct 6, 2009.

  1. asdfzxcv

    asdfzxcv Notebook Enthusiast

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    How can I recover my data for my External HDD?

    I had connect my flash drive & External HDD on my Macbook pro. While I try to format a flash drive by using Disk Utility. I've select a wrong drive, It's an External HDD. All data has been lost.

    Is there anyway to recover all data??? My External HDD is 80GB capacity, NTFS file system and also has 60 GB data on a drive. After I select a wrong drive to format. It's now FAT-32 file system, with nothing left.

    Do you know any program to recover my data??? For Mac or Windows if possible??? Pls. advise.

    Thanks
     
    asdfzxcv, Oct 6, 2009
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  2. zambie

    zambie Notebook Consultant

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    that's unfortunate
    I myself haven't had to come across this situation; however, a rudimentary search in google yielded the following -
    freeware options
    http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/freeware/data/recovery-mac

    shareware - free trial period
    http://www.macshareware.com/review/boomerang_data_recovery_mac_osx

    payware
    http://www.apple.com/downloads/maco...llarphoenixmacintoshdatarecoverysoftware.html
    http://www.datarecoverymac.com/
    http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1

    A couple of points of advice: you might want to try out local hard disk repair shops .... i hope there are some in and around the town that you live that can do data recovery for you .. at a nominal cost. The cost for the paywares i've just mentioned are in the 100USD range which is probably more than what a data recovery centre would charge you for data retrieval.

    Hope it works out for you.
     
    zambie, Oct 6, 2009
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  3. Emma Tamme

    Emma Tamme Newbie

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    You need not to be panic there is a good chance that your data can be recovered by using Partition Recovery Software which is a comprehensive windows partition recovery solution for data loss due to partition corruption, partition resizing, file system damage, boot sector corruption, MBR damage, virus infection and human errors.
     
    Emma Tamme, Nov 4, 2009
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  4. crab.nebula.1054

    crab.nebula.1054 Notebook Enthusiast

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    If the data is overwritten, stop the usage of your Mac immediately. The more files creates and change in logs is something that makes recovery hard.

    Overwritten data is too hard to recover. Try using Pro Soft data rescue II. As Zambie mentioned the best solution [ if you can shell out some money] is to take it to a data recovery center and in the mean time keeping your system switched off.

    Hope you get them recovered.
     
    crab.nebula.1054, Nov 12, 2009
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    crab.nebula.1054 Notebook Enthusiast

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  6. dkwhite

    dkwhite Notebook Deity

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    Really depends on how deep the format went. I've never heard of recovery after a full format without days of work and only recovering partial data. A quick format will yield the possibility, but a full format, probably not.
     
    dkwhite, Nov 12, 2009
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