Unformat NTFS help!!

Lazzer408 · Jan 25, 2007

Help.

How do I unformat a "quick format" of an NTFS volume?

Blame it on the beer!! :toast:

Lazzer408 · Jan 25, 2007

-bump- Need help guys. Anyone know of a free utility to recover a format???

Wile E · Jan 25, 2007

I know Acronis Disk Director Suite will do it, but it's not free. I'll see if I can scrape something up.

EDIT:Forgot to ask, is it your Windows partition, or just a data partition?

Wile E · Jan 25, 2007

I found this: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

Scanned with Kaspersky and it came up clean. Installed it and ran it, but couldn't test it, as I have no deleted partitions. Worth a try I suppose. That is if your comp still boots. If not it's back to the drawing board. lol

peach1971 · Jan 25, 2007

Test Disk looks good to me:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Darknova · Jan 25, 2007

I use Stellar Phoenix

http://www.stellarinfo.com/disk-recovery.htm

I've used it to recover an entire disk once. Very good program.

Lazzer408 · Jan 26, 2007

I tried Acronis and I couldn't find anything anywhere to recover a format. I'm scanning with GetDataBack for NTFS right now. It doesn't look like the format itself can be recovered. I miss the old unformat dos utility. Best I can do is try file recovery on it. So far that hasn't worked well using O&O Format recovery. It has trouble writing the recovered files to another drive. 1000s of write errors and a bsod will result. Windows in general has trouble copying alot of files in one shot. Drag and drop a folder with literally 1,000,000 files in it and xp will choke. On another note, has anyone ever noticed issues with Western Digital drives on an overclocked rig?

Lazzer408 · Jan 26, 2007

Wile E said:
I know Acronis Disk Director Suite will do it, but it's not free. I'll see if I can scrape something up.

EDIT:Forgot to ask, is it your Windows partition, or just a data partition?

It was a single drive 250gb data partition that was quickformated ntfs. I had backup folders on it of mp3s, pictures, etc and due to xp's above mentioned file copy bug I have to copy folders one at a time. I got all but one. I thought I had them all because the destination drive showed 25 folders which is what the source drive had but one of the 25 was the damn system restore folder and that screwed up my count. A folder was missed. :banghead:

AshenSugar · Jan 26, 2007

get active@ partition recovery it can normaly recover from those situations

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