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Rathji · 05-30-2010, 09:32 PM

I know what you are thinking:

How could anyone 'accidentally' format their hard drive. An hour ago I probably would have been in the same shoes as you, because I know most of you are thinking "what an idiot" this guy is.

Long story short, I am trying Windows Home server and when I added it to the list of drives that were shared to the network it said

"... formatting hard drive ..."

Of course seeing as I had just backed up all my data *to* that hard drive, this wasn't what I had planned and I tore the USB cable from my machine as though somehow it might prevent my partition table from dying a horrible death.

So here I sit, all my music, video and pictures are gone, hoping that TestDisk can recover my partition table and make me a happy man again.

The reason I make this post is before I actually write any changes from TestDisk to the disk. It has only found 2 of my 3 partitions on the drive. Does anyone have any suggestions about something that might be able to recover all 3?

05-30-2010, 09:32 PM	#1
Rathji Franchise Player Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Supporting Urban Sprawl Exp:	Accidentally formatted my external hard drive I know what you are thinking: How could anyone 'accidentally' format their hard drive. An hour ago I probably would have been in the same shoes as you, because I know most of you are thinking "what an idiot" this guy is. Long story short, I am trying Windows Home server and when I added it to the list of drives that were shared to the network it said "... formatting hard drive ..." Of course seeing as I had just backed up all my data to that hard drive, this wasn't what I had planned and I tore the USB cable from my machine as though somehow it might prevent my partition table from dying a horrible death. So here I sit, all my music, video and pictures are gone, hoping that TestDisk can recover my partition table and make me a happy man again. The reason I make this post is before I actually write any changes from TestDisk to the disk. It has only found 2 of my 3 partitions on the drive. Does anyone have any suggestions about something that might be able to recover all 3? __________________ "Wake up, Luigi! The only time plumbers sleep on the job is when we're working by the hour."