accidentally formatted external 1tb drive
Posted: 27 Apr 2012, 20:04
I'm trying to help a friend recover his HP SimpleSave 1TB USB 2.0 External. He accidentally started a quick format on the drive and then tried to cancel it before the format finished. Also, he might have unplugged the drive during this format. Since the format didn't finish, he couldn't access it in windows so he ended up doing another quick format. I believe the original file system was NTFS, but the HP SimpleSave has a hardware-maintained partition titled "HP Launcher" that includes the simplesave software.
He has tried some recovery programs like Easeus, Ontrack, Stellar Phoenix, but none of those were able to recover anything useful. Photorec worked for recovering most of the 60k+ photos, but with that many photos, losing the names and the folder structure is frustrating. Photorec didn't do as well recovering all the videos.
Would it be possible to use testdisk to recover the partition or undo the format? I have been trying to figure out testdisk but I'm not even sure what method would be best for this situation. Any ideas?
He has tried some recovery programs like Easeus, Ontrack, Stellar Phoenix, but none of those were able to recover anything useful. Photorec worked for recovering most of the 60k+ photos, but with that many photos, losing the names and the folder structure is frustrating. Photorec didn't do as well recovering all the videos.
Would it be possible to use testdisk to recover the partition or undo the format? I have been trying to figure out testdisk but I'm not even sure what method would be best for this situation. Any ideas?