Accidentally reformatted FAT32 drive to HFS

[scottd]

Using Mac OS X 10.4's Disk Utility, I accidentally selected the wrong external drive and overwrote a 500-GB FAT32 drive (Western Digital MyBook) with an HFS format. I immediately recognized my grievous error and stopped right there.

I am trying cgsecurity.org's TestDisk to see if I can reconstruct the FAT table, but I don't know if I have set the various parameters correctly. So far, I haven't been able to come up with a combination of commands that yields results that match those in the TestDisk documentation.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can get my FAT32 drive back? I don't want to lose about a year's worth of organizational iTunes work!

Thanks!

Scott

 

[agentphish]

you might try http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
Data rescue II. It's a great recovery program. I'm honestly not sure about having to rebuild the FAT table first though. As long as you haven't written any new data to the drive you're probably ok to use data rescue