Ontrack Recovery

[whenders]

I am trying to recover files from an accidental format of a 1 terabyte Windows 7 drive. I used a Linux based product called PartedMagic to format. The drive is attached currently attached to a Windows XP pro box via via SATA to USB dongle adapter. I have started the Ontrack Easy Recovery Pro (v 6.10) program 3 times, (because its taking so long) using the Format Recovery module. Each time it says it's recovered files but when it reaches the stage where it builds a tree with check boxes to select the files you wish to recover, it hangs (at the bottom of the window it says Building Tree...) I aborted twice thinking maybe I did something wrong but each time the behavior is the same. This time it's been running for 2 days. The hard drive activity light flashes occasionally of course there is no way to tell which drive its flashing for.
Any thoughts?

Bill
whenders421@gmail.com

 

[hang-the-9]

Check with the vendor of the program about how long this may take to do. It may also just get nothing back. Especially if you did something other than just a simple format. If you did a "wipe" for example with data over-write, the chances of it finding even a few files is very very small.

 

[whenders]

I've recovered all my data with a freebie called testdisk. But i want to recover the drive and make it bootable again. I dont know why OnTrack failed me this time...i've used it many times on
winxp boxes with no trouble so i'm thinking maybe its windows 7. I ran it 3 times, and one time i let run for almost 2 days before looking elsewhere.


U

 

[hang-the-9]

By recover you mean to undo the format? You can try easus partition master http://www.partition-tool.com/

If that does not work you may need to just re-install Windows.