Hi Guys.
I need some help recovering my data on my Western Digital MyBook 3TB after my father brilliantly decided to overwrite the MBR when he took the drive out of it's USB3 enclosure and stuck it into a media server he'd set up for himself. the drive obviously showed up as unallocated and he thought that by initializing it he would get the data to show up. when that didn't work he put the Sata-USB & power controller board back onto the drive and tried to read the data. when the drive still showed up as unallocated he then (trying to fix his mistake) used Acronis Disk Director to repartition the drive thinking that if he gave the drive a partition it would be able to read the data. yeah, not so much. I've got the drive back from him and run Recover My Files v5 on it to see if there was anything left to recover. At the moment, there is an empty partition labelled 'New Volume' and from what I can tell my data is still on the drive as 'lost files' but I have no idea where to go from here. I'd prefer not to have to go through 802Million nameless files. Does anyone know a way of recovering the old partition table or MBR without further destroying the chances of getting my data back whole? Or at least getting it to find the metadata so that I can recover the file system?
Any help would be so greatly appreciated you have no idea. That drive was pretty much my life, sad as that sounds, and had all my pics/vids/music/docs from like the last ten years and I will beg for it's life if necessary.
Naen
I need some help recovering my data on my Western Digital MyBook 3TB after my father brilliantly decided to overwrite the MBR when he took the drive out of it's USB3 enclosure and stuck it into a media server he'd set up for himself. the drive obviously showed up as unallocated and he thought that by initializing it he would get the data to show up. when that didn't work he put the Sata-USB & power controller board back onto the drive and tried to read the data. when the drive still showed up as unallocated he then (trying to fix his mistake) used Acronis Disk Director to repartition the drive thinking that if he gave the drive a partition it would be able to read the data. yeah, not so much. I've got the drive back from him and run Recover My Files v5 on it to see if there was anything left to recover. At the moment, there is an empty partition labelled 'New Volume' and from what I can tell my data is still on the drive as 'lost files' but I have no idea where to go from here. I'd prefer not to have to go through 802Million nameless files. Does anyone know a way of recovering the old partition table or MBR without further destroying the chances of getting my data back whole? Or at least getting it to find the metadata so that I can recover the file system?
Any help would be so greatly appreciated you have no idea. That drive was pretty much my life, sad as that sounds, and had all my pics/vids/music/docs from like the last ten years and I will beg for it's life if necessary.
Naen
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