UNdelete external hard drive

[Machina]

Today I made the biggest mistake to date :eek:

I got the external hard drive I have all my work files on mixed up with a little jump drive, went into the disc utility and erased it. Please some one help me! Is there a way to get it all back with out having to take it somewhere expensive!

Blake

[jeremy.king]

disconnect that drive immediately then give Filesalvage a try - http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1

[jonnylink]

So long as you haven't been doing anything that would write to the drive the chances of recovery are actually fairly good. I once deleted a partition and the recovery was as simple as rebuilding the partition map.

I *think* i used testdisk which is command line stuff. I was also using ubuntu, but there is a darwinport version of testdisk.