May 16, 2009, 01:02 AM
Versed Wrote:In my attempt to get my drives in order my external HDD was formatted.
Not sure how you managed that, but you can get in some cases get it back. As long as you haven't touched the drive since, you should be able to get some data back.
If you're lucky, you can get the whole MFT from the old format which will point to your files which should be mostly intact (for example, the new MFT might have stomped on some of your files). You will definitely be able to get SOMETHING back. There are plenty of crappy programs out there that will be able to get word documents and jpgs and stuff off a drive because it can scan the entire drive for things that look like files. If the files are contiguous, it can pull them off.
As long as you're not writing to the drive, there should be no harm in trying whatever file recovery programs you want.