External Seagate HDD for PC formatted accidentally on MAC!

Bobbietherookie

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Accidentally formatted my Seagate External HDD on a MAC while it was configured for PC. Now the HDD doesn't show up in My Computer in Win10 anymore. It shows up in device manager, but there is virtually nothing I can do with it.

Tried some data recovery programs like Minitool, which retrieved the data and I can acces for example wordfiles, but they show nothing of the original texts. Just X's and/or squares. Other file-types can't be opened and seem to be corrupted.

Tried Recuva, but since the Seagate drive doesn't show up on My Computer, it can't access the drive.

Tried Yodot, which did a scan but then asked for a license key. So it's not for free and I am afraid I won't have succes in retrieving my data back in an accessible way....

Does anyone know a solution?
 
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Hey there, Bobbie!

This is quite an unfortunate situation.
You could also try some data recovery programs with the Mac. Basically by reformatting a hard drive, the data should still be there and intact, as long as you don't overwrite it with any new information. But in your case things might have messed up because you've written your data on a Windows file system, and reformatted the drive with by using Mac OSX with one of the Mac native file systems, so it's kind of a long shot here. You safest bet would be to go directly for a data recovery company.
Other than that, if you decide to give up on data recovery, you should be able to use your drive, by going to Disk Management and reformatting it with the NTFS files system on a Windows...
Hey there, Bobbie!

This is quite an unfortunate situation.
You could also try some data recovery programs with the Mac. Basically by reformatting a hard drive, the data should still be there and intact, as long as you don't overwrite it with any new information. But in your case things might have messed up because you've written your data on a Windows file system, and reformatted the drive with by using Mac OSX with one of the Mac native file systems, so it's kind of a long shot here. You safest bet would be to go directly for a data recovery company.
Other than that, if you decide to give up on data recovery, you should be able to use your drive, by going to Disk Management and reformatting it with the NTFS files system on a Windows computer. Here's how to do it: How to partition and format a drive on Windows and Mac OSX

Hope that helps. Please let me know how everything goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
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