Urgent help, erased wrong drive

[Wayne s]

Just had a moment of complete madness and erased the wrong external drive using disk utility, I did not use any of the security options, what can I do now?

Please tell me some good news.

 

[Batt]

Just had a moment of complete madness and erased the wrong external drive using disk utility, I did not use any of the security options, what can I do now?

Please tell me some good news.

There is no good news. Don't do anything more with the drive. Buy expensive recovery software, run it and pray.

 

[mackindergarten]

Maybe take a look at Data Rescue II. Not sure, how capable the demo version is, though.

 

[Wayne s]

Maybe take a look at Data Rescue II. Not sure, how capable the demo version is, though.

thanks, but the demo only allows 1 file of 5MB or less to be recovered.
I just lost about 20gig.

Sod it, I have most of it backed up on DVD's but have been spending weeks sorting and re-naming stuff. Looks like an important lesson learnt.

 

[Batt]

thanks, but the demo only allows 1 file of 5MB or less to be recovered.
I just lost about 20gig.

Sod it, I have most of it backed up on DVD's but have been spending weeks sorting and re-naming stuff. Looks like an important lesson learnt.

Well, it's fortunate that you have most of it backed up on DVD, then. At least you can recover most of it, even if it will be a pain in the ass. Most important lessons are hard ones though, aren't they?

 

[OllyW]

Sorry, I can't help get your files back but for the future, I recommend this.

 

[Wayne s]

Sorry, I can't help get your files back but for the future, I recommend this.

That's the big kick in the teeth, I was wanting to erase my Time Machine drive so I backed every thing up that I wanted to keep to my other drive.

When I clicked erase on the TM drive I got an input/output error, so I tried again and some how selected my second drive and have now lost both.

 

[cherry su]

Ouch. It's somewhat unfortunate Time Machine doesn't back up other external drives.

 

[Pees330]

I feel your pain. I'm just hoping you didn't anything really important on there.

 

[OllyW]

Ouch. It's somewhat unfortunate Time Machine doesn't back up other external drives.

It does back up other external drives if you let it.

 

[Wayne s]

I tried Data Rescue, and it works great, got back 1 file using the demo version.

 

[mackindergarten]

There is also FileSalvage which is slightly cheaper. They also have a demo available.

As it seems, there is no data recovery freeware for Mac. Maybe you can find something for Windows and recover your data from a PC.

Good luck.

/Rupert

 

[DizzyRose]

Try what I sent you in a PM, it'll recover more than 5MB files for you

 

[benpatient]

same problem here, more of less...

dizzyrose, i'd like to know what you know...

 

[agentphish]

Data Rescue II w/o a doubt. It's so worth it. You could always borrow it from someone who owns it if you don't want to buy it. My school actually had a copy I used once...Then I got it myself.