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Hit format by mistake

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July 13, 2014 3:44:53 AM

I Clicked on format disk & before the format started i removed the external manually - now on reconnecting it states that format disk before using - how can i recover my data

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July 13, 2014 4:15:20 AM

Hi

what sort of disk ?
usb Hard disk ?
usb memory stick ?

problem could be because you causes corruption by removal without using 'safe remove hardware' icon
Chkdsk may work

or you were affected by format starting to re write to disk
[format without un ticking quick format can be recovered from by most recovery programs but often looses file & folder names)

TestDisk / PhotoRec from http://www.cgsecurity.org/ is good at rebuilding partition data
(if only start of disk damaged)

Best advice:- if data critical go to a data recovery expert
Next best:- image this external device to another device of equal or greater size and work on copy
so that if thing go wrong you can get another try later.

remember when recovering it is preferred to recover files to a different device
(unless you have a backup image of disk which is known to be good)
So once recovery succeeds in recovering data to new location reformat & copy back

best of luck

Mike Barnes
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July 13, 2014 4:20:42 AM

You Can Recover your Data Easily. now a days many recovering Softwares are available.
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