Hello, please, help me any way! Last year, I had purchased a Seagate hard drive and had saved all the videos, images, files, mails and more information inside it. However, yesterday, mistakenly, my girl friend formatted this drive when viewing some wedding photos on my laptop. Even though I had prepared a data backup on my computer laptop, this backup had not been backed up over one month. Many of my needed drive stuffs still cannot be accessed right now. Do you have any idea to help me rescue them back? Thank you for any advice!
Help rescue lost stuffs from formatted Seagate drive
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Hi Sam! That's a bad deal. Bad girl friend.
The only sure way I know is to pay big $$$.
You could try Recuva by piriform. You might get lucky!!
Good Luck!!
https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
https://www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/using-recuva
The only sure way I know is to pay big $$$.You could try Recuva by piriform. You might get lucky!!
Good Luck!!
https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download
https://www.piriform.com/docs/recuva/using-recuva
- Jun 16, 2014
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Hey Samthalo02, welcome to MalwareTips!
First things first, has anybody used the hard-drive since your girlfriend formatted it? Secondly, how was it formatted, was it a "Quick Format" or "Full Format"? If you don't know, then try to describe for me how the drive was formatted, for example, did your girlfriend right click on the drive and format it, or was it formatted from a recovery disk? etc.
Finally, if you could tell me the model of your drive then I can provide some more detailed assistance
The important thing is not to worry. In most cases we can quite easily recover 'most' of the lost pictures and videos etc.
Worst case scenario, if a secure wipe has been performed (this would have been performed with specialist software, so I'd be surprised if your girlfriend managed to do this), it may still be possible to recover something, although this would be a very specialist kind of operation and not the kind of thing I could advise you on how to do! You would have to send the drive away.
Until then, please don't use the hard-drive at all. Don't plug it into the dock or connect it to your computer or anything like that. The less use that hard-drive gets before we start the recovery process, the better chance of recovering your pictures and videos etc.
First things first, has anybody used the hard-drive since your girlfriend formatted it? Secondly, how was it formatted, was it a "Quick Format" or "Full Format"? If you don't know, then try to describe for me how the drive was formatted, for example, did your girlfriend right click on the drive and format it, or was it formatted from a recovery disk? etc.
Finally, if you could tell me the model of your drive then I can provide some more detailed assistance
The important thing is not to worry. In most cases we can quite easily recover 'most' of the lost pictures and videos etc.
Worst case scenario, if a secure wipe has been performed (this would have been performed with specialist software, so I'd be surprised if your girlfriend managed to do this), it may still be possible to recover something, although this would be a very specialist kind of operation and not the kind of thing I could advise you on how to do! You would have to send the drive away.
Until then, please don't use the hard-drive at all. Don't plug it into the dock or connect it to your computer or anything like that. The less use that hard-drive gets before we start the recovery process, the better chance of recovering your pictures and videos etc.
Have any luck to get everything back still now? If not, I think there is a video tutorial that can help you a lot:
It really helped me a lot when my USB drive was formatted for mistaken clicking. So, it may also give you some useful clues.
Never format a memory card or hard drive without data backups again in the future.
It really helped me a lot when my USB drive was formatted for mistaken clicking. So, it may also give you some useful clues.
Never format a memory card or hard drive without data backups again in the future.
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