[RyanC321]

I accidentally forgot to copy one folder of videos from my secondary hard drive I formatted to my other hard drive.

The folder of videos is about 60GB. I've seen some applications for sale that will let you unformat your hard drive.

Which one would you recommend or is there a free one?

How do I find out what version of ntfs my hard drive is? I guess since it is formatted it may not have a version number?

 

[rollnw24inkmc]

I accidentally forgot to copy one folder of videos from my secondary hard drive I formatted to my other hard drive.

The folder of videos is about 60GB. I've seen some applications for sale that will let you unformat your hard drive.

Which one would you recommend or is there a free one?

How do I find out what version of ntfs my hard drive is? I guess since it is formatted it may not have a version number?

you can use PowerQuest PartitionMagic to format the hard drive.
NTFS has five versions:

v1.0
v1.1
v1.2 found in NT 3.51 and NT 4
v3.0 found in Windows 2000
v3.1 found in Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and in current pre-release versions of Windows Vista
These versions are sometimes referred to as v4.0, v5.0, and v5.1, after the version of Windows they ship with. Newer versions added extra features.

 

[kiwiguy]

From my reading of the question, the requirement is to recover a 60 GB folder from a drive that has since been formatted?

If so, data recovery software is required, however with large video files that will probably be "fragmented" across the disk, this may be quite difficult.

As long as you have not written -anything- to the disk since formatting it may be possible.

Please confirm the above interpretation is correct, then others may have some good links for recovery software.

One important issue is not to write anything to this drive in the meantime, and if recovery is possible the video files should not be recovered back to the drive, as they will overwrite others yet to be recovered.

 

[RyanC321]

Yes, you are correct. No data has been written to the formatted drive. I hear you say I must recover the video files to a new hard drive.
Thank you.

 

[Alex Ethridge]

I've used Easy Recovery Pro version 6 for this purpose. (Later versions available.) My assessment is your chances are very good--as long as you don't write anything, anything, anything to that drive.

As for NTFS version, if you choose the wrong file system, you can simply run it again using a different choice. Easy Recovery won't write to the drive. It just reads it.

 

[RyanC321]

Thanks, I will check on this.

 

[ceri sheeran]

Hi,

Look at Get My Data back

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

28GB of data recovered
Not a single file missing, need I say more

hth

Ceri

 

[RyanC321]

Hi Ceri,

Thanks, because the other program suggested costs hundreds of dollars.

I will check into your suggestion,

Ryan