Good video Brian... Can you please show us how to completely Unformat the drive, like if it was a bootable partition, let's say? What I have is a quick formatted bootable external drive, and I need to bring it back to a bootable state with all the directories AND files intact. I unplugged it directly after the accidental formatting, and have not plugged it back in since I don't want windows writing anything else to it...I did view the drive with windows explorer (once), just after it completed formatting the drive and that's when I noticed it was the wrong drive. I had added a new drive to my system and confused the two because of a drive letter reallocation. I read somewhere that windows has a second copy of the fat table, and am hoping that if that version of the table is still present that maybe I can recover it? Here's the specifics: I have a portable 540Gb external drive that was quick formatted accidentally; It was a bootable drive with a second windows 10 image with my DJ software And all my music... The DJ software protection marries itself via my specific hardware, and I'm only allowed 1 license for my system, so I need the whole bootable drive restored.... Any ideas/solution? Sure I could ask testdisk to recover all the files one by one, but then I would have to rebuild all the directories of artist/album for 250,000+ songs... And I wouldn't even know where to begin to rebuild the DJ software... It could be storing the hardware fingerprint in a file, or in the registry, or perhaps even hide it in some hidden allocated area of the drive. So please show us how to recover a bootable partition😁 Many thanks, and you are a great resource of knowledge to the youtube community!!

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I actually formatted because of 🥴, I was a bit sleepy and diskpart clean command he didn't warn

Update: Just used this technique again after finding the video again. Now its bookmarked and I am subscribed. Double thumbs up again 1 year later 🙂

most of softwares for deleted files recovery are piece of crap including those expensive/payed ones which takes time and then they just recover names of folder and files without data in it !1 its shit

Same 😢 have you recovered your data ??​@@telugu6982

The proof is already clear in the format process. No one was hiding the fact that the information is destroyed.

It's my pleasure

Good question!

I doubt it. A quick format just erases the file table, a full format actually zeroes out each byte of data. You can recover that sometimes--but it requires special hardware to find and read out of position data track remnants.

@@lyfandeth Thanks very much - that makes sense.

Nah bro when disk is filed with zeros no software or hardware that can help...for quick format is easy most of time but full wipe i don't think so but nothing is 100% 💁

all data Recover ?

@@bece3oo3ourvishrdesai12 No single software return anything useful… EaseUs bring back most of the stuff correctly placed in directories, but over 40% were “0” in size, and all other software return the same but mostly raw files and in one directory. I was happy to return only one song from probably 10-15 songs I’ve composed in past 2 months, so help was a time-waste. I backup stuff on DropBox (2tb), GoogleDrive, GooglePhotos, iCloud and external usb drives & hdds. My life is recovered thanks to all these media and only few files returned including one song and several psd files :)

Hi, any instructions to do it this way, thanks

@@GoonManz same here, wondering how it works

what about non quick format? OR did the reset this PC and fully wipe from windows 10 reset wizard thing? (vs the keep files etc)

Did it help?

You are welcome!

you haven't had time

@@An.Individual probably

Slow format really cleans the disk, no way to recover the data, while a quick format just "hides" the files but does not delete them.

@@redangrybird7564 Many thanks 🤗

@@ionamygdalon2263 no worries (Australian way to say you are welcome or no problem) 😎✌️

@@redangrybird7564 I have lived in England for a short time(in the North to be precise), and I remember hearing that there! When you are taught English as a Foreign language unfortunately they do not teach such things. So, thanks for explaining that! Had I not lived in England, I would not know it's meaning.

@@ionamygdalon2263 I have lived in Australia for many years but originally I am from Latin America and before I came to live here I didn't know many of the language expressions people use here in OZ. Take care.

Thanks

Thanks, will do!

You might try some data recovery software but the odds are not good. "Burnable" discs normally burn pits in a thin layer of dye. If water gets in or the dye breaks down from aging, the data is physically gone. Recovery software *might* still be able to access some parts of it. Oddly enough, the US Library of Congress has tested media for archival storage life. You might find their choices on the web.

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I also have the same problem. How to retain data as previous folder structure?

@@pratigyagyawali3323 It's like throwing a thousand puzzle pieces on the floor and then try to find just that right piece of pic of a blue sky.

My pleasure!

I love disc doctor. Another good one from that era is diskpatch

I think it might mean to run the program in full screen mode, instead of a window.

I was about to ask how they compare also lol no time like the present to find out first hand. Plus thatll give me more data for the testing ive been conducting on my i9. Trying to see real world benefits of HT considering 9th gen i7s gained 2 cores but no more HT.. otherwise it seems like a 9900k is just a 9th gen i7 with HT turned on lol

Probably not as it's probably been written over. A normal format removes the FAT, a table that ties file names and location to the actual files. Some large files have several entries as data is stored in 1024 or 2048 byte sectors. Most formats just delete the FAT. A deep format writes to every bit several times.

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As fast as I delete them, they come back. They are bots.

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