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Recovering Data After A Quick Format
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07-13-2005, 09:31 AM
Aka,Jul 12 2005, 07:17 PM Wrote:Actually I didn't even let it finish the quick format. I realized it was the wrong drive and freaked out and turned the machine off, and unplugged the drive. The format made it to about 25%. So no writing was done afterwards. And even if there was, I could still recover quite a lot of the stuff, as long as what I wrote didn't happen to fill the drive, or write one part ontop of each previous file.

I think WRC is just for rebuilding a broken windows install, so it wouldn't be too helpful.
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Ouch, turning things off partway through might have been worse than letting things get properly munched. Yer now trying to fix a drive that's had its Master Boot Record whacked, partial formatting... I'd suggest getting software or taking it into a shop. At this point not gonna be an easy fix.

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Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 08:34 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 08:50 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 08:55 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 08:57 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 09:02 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 09:04 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 09:13 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 09:17 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 09:30 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - NefCanuck - 07-13-2005, 09:31 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 09:33 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 11:03 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 11:24 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 01:24 PM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-13-2005, 11:56 PM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-14-2005, 12:10 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-14-2005, 02:24 AM
Recovering Data After A Quick Format - Aka - 07-14-2005, 03:19 AM

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