Ran DBAN on wrong hard drive for about 0.5 seconds

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Hi,

I ran DBAN (hard disk wiping software) on the wrong hard drive for about half a second and now Windows recognizes the drive as "Unallocated Space" and wants to format it. I tried running chkdsk on the drive, but I got "CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."

None of the data should be destroyed...so I realize that using simple recovery software could recover all my data....but is there a potential way that I could fix the file system somehow?

Thanks.

Reply to Treeh

Bumpidy!

Reply to Treeh

The only tools I know that *might* work are (Linux based) partition recovery tools like TestDisk (included with PartedMagic); there are no doubt other recovery tools, I just haven't used them.

Good luck.

Reply to MrLinux

I was a bit weary of recovering using my Linux partition...but I found a neat Windows app (ZAR) that was able to identify the previous file structure and restore everything including directories and file names. So it's as good as new, now.

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Reply to Treeh

Treeh wrote :

It happened the same to me!
HELP!!!!
Please explain step-by-step how you did it?
Thanx!

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