Help please. I have formatted

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my daughters flash drive by mistake, she left it plugged into the back of my pc and I must have formatted it instead of my compact flash card!

is there anyway of getting her data back? I havent even told her it must be me thats done it! I will come clean tomorrow when she has had a nights sleep !
 
Sandisk Rescue Pro disk may help....if you can obtain one.
 
Don't panic, it can all be recovered so long as you don't write to it.
There are many programs available to recover from erased or formatted cards, go have a sleep, I'm sure there'll be many answers by the morning, :)
 
I would imagne Sandisk Rescue Pro will sort you out. If you need a copy PM me and I'll pop one in the post.

Ryan
 
Bazza155 said:
Sandisk Rescue Pro disk may help....if you can obtain one.
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oh now I think i have a rescue disk from some compact flash card it may well be the pro one,

Just Dave said:
Doubt it can recover anything, Carols formatted it so prob anything left will be corrupt I would think, maybe Im wrong
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Now Dave that isnt the reply I was hoping for :LOL::shake: Im in it deep here! you havent met my girl have you :LOL: she may go easy on me its my bday tomorrow

Kevin H said:
Don't panic, it can all be recovered so long as you don't write to it.
There are many programs available to recover from erased or formatted cards, go have a sleep, I'm sure there'll be many answers by the morning, :)
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I think the sleep idea is a good one, I will look for the disk tomorrow! if not I will be on google most of the day
 
ryanyboy said:
I would imagne Sandisk Rescue Pro will sort you out. If you need a copy PM me and I'll pop one in the post.

Ryan
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thats so kind of you thank you, If I dont find mine tomorrow i will be intouch,

AJH748 said:
May be one of these freeware progs will do it for you, but as mentioned in an earlier post don't write anything else to it until you have recovered the files.

cheers, more positive (y)

http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html
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Yea should be quite easy to recover it really, I've done it many a time although it does take a reasonably amount of time to scan the drives - depending how big it is. You may end up trying a few different bits of software but one will work.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva - probably one of the best free ones if the sandisk software doesnt help :)
 
cason said:
Now Dave that isnt the reply I was hoping for :LOL::shake: Im in it deep here! you havent met my girl have you :LOL: she may go easy on me its my bday tomorrow
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oops seems Im wrong, I thought formatted was wiped, I am pleased Im wrong though, so hope it works for you. in fact I have an old HD that has files I thought Id lost, wonder if I can retrieve anything off it
 
Just Dave said:
oops seems Im wrong, I thought formatted was wiped, I am pleased Im wrong though, so hope it works for you. in fact I have an old HD that has files I thought Id lost, wonder if I can retrieve anything off it
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As far as I know formatting just frees up the space on the drive so it can be over-written.
It doesn't actually delete the file.

The file becomes unrecoverable if it (or part of it) is overwritten by a new file!

If that makes sense. :LOL:
 
i have just recovered a drive with easy recovery professional got every thing back(y)
 
Generally a format operation will just wipe the FAT (file allocation table) which is like a map of where stuff is on the drive. Mosts decent recovery tools should get your data back. As has been said earlier - do not write ANY more data to that drive.
 
LemmingLover said:
Generally a format operation will just wipe the FAT (file allocation table) which is like a map of where stuff is on the drive. Mosts decent recovery tools should get your data back. As has been said earlier - do not write ANY more data to that drive.
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this.

as long as you dont write anything to the drive after the format the files "should" still be intact.
 
Any update on this one?
As others have said, don't worry, it should be recoverable. Just don't write anything else to it.
 
Bill Roberts said:
Any update on this one?
As others have said, don't worry, it should be recoverable. Just don't write anything else to it.
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sorry, she hasnt brought the card back as yet! I will certainly update when I have had a go, I have found the scandisk rescue so that will be my first option, then I will work my way through above suggestions.
thanks
cas
 
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