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Court
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 12:25 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Who else here has formatted a hard drive by accident?

I was INTENDING to move 20 years of Buell files, about 40GB of stuff and OOPS.

The local data recovery service says "no problem, we can do it on about 3 days, it'll be in the neighborhood of $2,400".

MORAL: Think before you hit "ENTER".
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Ratbuell
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 12:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Wow. At least they can save it though.

Been there, done that. I feel for ya.
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Diablobrian
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 04:32 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

ouch...been there, done that.

I was fortunate that there was nothing on the hard drive that was irreplaceable.
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Davegess
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 05:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

COURT, THAT SUCKS.
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Naustin
Posted on Thursday, August 16, 2007 - 05:36 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Just be glad you weren't using a utility program that actually over-writes the disk with random data 3 times...

Hope you get it all back - but $2,400!
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Dbird29
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 12:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

I guess the price of "the Book" will be rising by just a little bit.
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Coal400
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 08:33 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

There are other options available to you court.

Hopefully you know what type of file system you had - assuming you were not using FAT32 from a previous install, the default for modern windows OS's is NTFS.

Check these guys out: http://www.runtime.org/
They have a product called "GetDataBack". They also have the same product for FAT32 if that is the file system you used.

Just try not to write to the drive now that you've formatted, and don't let windows establish a pagefile on that drive.

I believe the software costs $79 and they offer a demo that you can check out for free. Save the $2300 for a few backup drives : )
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Jackbequick
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 04:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

"..Who else here has formatted a hard drive by accident?..."

Several times. Back when I was building systems and adding or replacing drives 50-100 times a year or more.

I finally evolved to a system with a blank piece of paper. I'd hand write the info from a series of chkdsk displays written on it, stuff like:

C:
Volume label is R40_80GB
78147688 KB total disk space.

D:
cd-rom

E:
Volume label...

etc., etc.,

When I had that written down for all the drives I would think about which drive (by size more than drive letter or volume label) I wanted to format and I would circle that one and "X" out the others.

Then I would then write down the command "format e: /s" or whatever, think about it again, and then type it in. Read it several times and press enter.

I've had guys laugh at me for doing that but some of the other guys would just look away and shake their heads...

You have my full sympathy!

Jack
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Froggy
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 08:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Court, should of PMed me, i would of gladly got your data back for free, an accidental drive format is easy with the right tools : )
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Coal400
Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 08:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

As long as there is a human involved, there is a chance for error, or malicious attack.
Best practice is to backup those things you don't wish to lose. Especially if the data is of significant value.
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