New Motherboard Wiped My Hard Drive?!

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Hey I recently bought a new PC,
Although I transferred my 1tb and 500gb hard drives over from my old PC..

I put all of my data on the 500gb hard drive to copy back over to the 1tb knowing that I'd have to wipe the 1tb hard drive and re-install windows on it first.

I'm now on my new PC,1tb hard drive is fine running Win 7 ultimate but the 500gb E: drive is completely empty! There was an OS even and now that's gone too!

How did this happen?
 
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My friend built it for me but I know for a fact that the 2 HDDs were plugged in at the same time and he re-installed Win7 on the 1tb.
 
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I'm guessing he might have accidentally formatted both drives before installing Windows.

I'd try running http://www.piriform.com/recuva. Install to the 1tb HDD, and run it selecting the 500gb. If nothing has been written to the disk then with some luck you should be able to get back most of the backed up files from the 500gb.
 
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Oh my god! I didn't know this existed!! Thanks you so much,about to try it out! :D

It's asking me where the files where?
Should I select specific destination and enter (E:\)?
Or
On a virtual disk?
Or
On my media card or iPod?

 
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What if the E:\ drive is currently empty?
 
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The E:/ drive is your 500 GB HDD? You don't want to store anything on that HDD, thats where you're trying to save the files from. If you run the application and save to it you will be over-writing other files you have yet to retrieve. You'll want to run the program to save data from the 500gb HDD and store it on the 1tb HDD, in a directory of your choice.
 
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It worked but for some reason it recovered thousands of <mod edit> that was never even on that drive.. things that I've probably just looked at like other people's YouTube thumbnails,friend's facebook profile pictures etc..
And the stuff that was mine either doesn't work anymore or the pictures I had are all a <mod edit> resolution..

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The recuva program will literally look at all the binary data on the HDD and see what can be recovered. It will find anything that has ever been written to the drive and let you know what can be recovered. Hopefully it was able to find most of your files you needed. Anything recovered you don't need can be safely deleted.
 
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Theres's about 200000 files that were recovered tho :eek:
The hard drive is 465gb (It says 500gb on the actual hdd :\ ) and I recovered over 700gb of complete <mod edit>,looking through it all for my stuff would be like trying to find a condom in the pope's bedroom.. (or needle in a haystack if you prefer)

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Unfortunately that's how this kind of thing happens. It is odd that you recovered more data than the HDD can hold, but I'm guessing it's partial files reporting a larger foot print than they actually have. If you do have any files you do need and know the names of you can do a search for them in windows. Sadly when a HDD is wiped this is the best way of getting some data back. It's either the mashup of files, or loosing all of them forever.

Next time you're installing windows (or any OS) I'd strongly recommend only plugging in the storage device you're installing to. One simple mouse slip and your media can be wiped.
 
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