WD Elements 10B8 1012 Recovery from Android format

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slodriloch

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Hi

I got a WD Elements 10B8 1012

My friend connected it to android phone and did a format on it.

How do I recover and revert the format to the old partition ?

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Boogieman_WD
I see, so I guess this means that you need the data. In this case, don't do anything I've mentioned in my previous comment, yet.

First you'll need to recover the data. I'm afraid you won't be able to recover the partition and everything like it was before you've reformatted the drive. However it might be possible to recover the data. Check out the suggestions from this link and try some of them to see if you'd be able to recover your files: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm.

Hope fully one of them proves useful and you don't have to go for a data recovery company. Please let me know how it goes.
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Boogieman_WD

Boogieman_WD

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Hey there, slodriloch.

Do you need any data from that drive, or you just want to make it usable with your computer again (I assume a Windows OS)?

If you just want to reformat the drive so that you can use it (as it sounds from your question) and don't care about the data, you can access Disk Management and right click with the mouse on the current partition and select "format". Use the NTFS File System. You could also click on the current partition/s with the right button and select "delete volume" until all the space is with a black border and says "Unallocated", then follow this tutorial: How to partition and format a WD drive on Windows and Mac OSX

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

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Jul 31, 2014
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I see, so I guess this means that you need the data. In this case, don't do anything I've mentioned in my previous comment, yet.

First you'll need to recover the data. I'm afraid you won't be able to recover the partition and everything like it was before you've reformatted the drive. However it might be possible to recover the data. Check out the suggestions from this link and try some of them to see if you'd be able to recover your files: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm.

Hope fully one of them proves useful and you don't have to go for a data recovery company. Please let me know how it goes.
 
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