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by ahmed1
19 May 2017, 15:05
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

hi, i followed the steps full after the cmd step everything is gone this folder is empty can be seen and the drive is compleatly blank. what do i do now. please help
by ahmed1
18 May 2017, 22:33
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

hello, ok so i followed the steps with the backub bs and there was an error ( i forgot to screan shot itbut it said something vaigue like there was an eror... not givig any etails so i restared the pc as instructed and now i have a local disk e insted of the usb partion that windows mae it has asked ...
by ahmed1
18 May 2017, 18:25
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

ok so i did this after selectig it brings me to this...
http://imgur.com/a/Py0Pl
it says sectors are not identical, is this because the actual one was formatted / overwritten , should i proceed with backup bs
i will wait for our response.
please ignore the previous posts i made the hard drive was ...
by ahmed1
18 May 2017, 16:48
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

never mind, upon inspection i believe the hard drive was up plugged from my laptop after the scan i will redo ever thing and change it to p.
by ahmed1
18 May 2017, 16:45
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

hi, i actually followed your steps ad after quick search the analyse then changing it to p then confirm this error shows up the i kicks me out back to the main menu ( analyse advanced...ext screen :
http://imgur.com/a/TDX4a
i will tr to analyse again again then follow the steps again. then ii will ...
by ahmed1
17 May 2017, 20:51
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

hello, again i want to thank you very much for responding to me i really appreciate it.
when doing this am i at risk of losing the data on the file i.e should i i some way (which i don't know) back up the drive so that if this doesn't work we ca try something else
it is currently analyzing after ...
by ahmed1
17 May 2017, 17:55
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

i have looked into photorec as you have suggested however it restores raw file data with no folder structure or names it their any way to recover them with the folders. as previously mentioned, not having folders renders everything else useless.
i have also bee searching and i have no idea what it ...
by ahmed1
17 May 2017, 17:22
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

Re: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

hello,
cgrenier, thank you for replying. can photorec restore the folders i which the files existed. the files alone are essentially useless. is there no way i can recover the back up sector previously mentioned. only 30 gb has been formatted as i currently understand the backup sector is near the ...
by ahmed1
16 May 2017, 20:46
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent
Replies: 10
Views: 5242

external hard drive accidentally formatted please help urgent

hello,
i was creating a windows 10 usb to install win 10 on my other pc when selected my hard drive instead of usb ( i know i am an idiot). i didn't realize this until it ended and i sw my usb was untouched while hard drive now was renamed ad now 32 gb. (it is actually 300 gb) the rest of the hard ...