Hi guys,
Found this tool online - everyone that seems to have similar problems said this tool saved their lives!
I'm now in their positions - wife will kill me if i can't recover the drive! :S
so, have an external drive, 2 TB, with about 2/3rds full.
Was supposed to format a thumb drive, clicked format, realized which Drive it wanted to format, clicked Cancel -
now everytime i try to open the drive i get E:\ is not accessible file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
So i downloaded the TestDisk tool... tried the PhotoRec option and it started finding a bunch of files - so i figure the i'm half way home.
i'm thinking i'll use testDisk and actually fix the drive - but am not sure what to do
1) i find the drive
2) i select the Intel partition table (because it tells me intel partition detected)
3) now i'm at partition structure - tells me No partition is bootable (which it shouldn't be - its just an ext drive to store data) shows 1 P HPFS - NTFS with all these #'s
so i do Quick Search
4) Structure OK
what to do now?
Need Help, external drive, accidentally clicked Format and clicked cancel right away
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Need Help, external drive, accidentally clicked Format and clicked cancel right away
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Re: Need Help, external drive, accidentally clicked Format and clicked cancel right away
Press 'p' to list the files. If you see your files, choose Write, confirm, Quit and restart your computer.
Please copy/paste the testdisk.log file if you have problems.
Please copy/paste the testdisk.log file if you have problems.