My E drive has been formatted - please help!!!

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Cal9099

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Hi everyone,

Panicking a bit so hope someone can help. I updated my adaware to the latest version and for some reason my main hard drive (E drive) has been wiped. It is still accessible it seems but is now empty. Any way to restore this if I haven't created a backup???

Many thanks
 
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aquielisunari

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Can you unbake a cake? No. Can you reverse engineer a cake to see what it's ingredients are? YEs.

http://www.easeus.com/resource/unformat.htm is one possible fix.

https://www.piriform.com/recuva/download is another way to retrieve lost information.

From the outside this um doesn't make sense. An anti-virus is updated and erases a drive? So 1+1 can = 0.

 
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The updating of my hard drive just so happened to occur at the same time I realised the hard drive had been formatted, I'm not a computer whizz it was just an observation.

But thank you for your suggestions. I've run EaseUS and although it says there's 2 more hours of the scan to do, it is showing up a lot of the lost folders from my E drive. Does this mean at the end I can just click restore and it'll be back to how it was?? I've got no experience with the program.




 
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aquielisunari

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I'm sorry if that came off as sounding sarcastic. It truly wasn't delivered that way. Odd things happen and I'm not a whiz either.

Not imo. I am not familiar with that particular program. What I expect to happen is it will allow you to restore those files to another drive. It won't return the drive to what it was but may offer all the files. Programs have their own personalities usually driven by money. It might actually be able to restore the drive but that may only be the paid version. Restoring just the files may be different. Recuva, which I am familiar with(free version) lets the user scan for just photos or videos or documents or........ and also will just scan for all retrievable files if the user is not exactly sure what they are looking for. It will then list all the files with their condition(from excellent to corrupted). The user can select their desired files and recover the files. It's best to allow the program to recover(restore) the files to a different drive but when dealing with Recuva I have successfully restored files to the same and other drives.
 
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