Recover data from initialised hard drive in 10.1

[spriter]

No joke... and I can't think of any software from that far back.

A friend emailed last night saying he had a drive that had been 'acidentally formatted' (that's a lot of accidental mouse clicks if you ask me), that it took 2 seconds to format so it should have not actually wiped any data on there.

I've used Disk Warrior in other circumstances but never tried on an initialised drive. Nor would I know how to get a copy of such old software.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what software from that time might recover the data?

Thanks in advance

 

[BlueRevolution]

Is this the boot drive that was formatted? Does your friend also have OS 9? What sort of system is he running?

 

[spriter]

Hi BlueRevolution,

No OS9, it's not the boot drive, an additional internal drive that just had data on it.

Thanks.

 

[BlueRevolution]

And the computer model/specs?

 

[Makosuke]

Data Rescue II is the way to go, but I don't think it'll run on a system that old. Free download trial, though, so it's easy to find out.

Frankly your friend is probably better off getting it to someone with a newer computer to run DRII on it and hope for the best.