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    I need some help with testdisk

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by drtigerlilly, Feb 26, 2011.

  1. drtigerlilly

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    ok long story short.
    I accidentally formatted my external drive.
    so I followed the instructions for recovery of a formatted partition
    and it found the partitions and files but I can't get the drive to show up in my computer. It shows up in Disk Management as RAW.

    These are the instructions I followed.

    Data Recovery Examples - CGSecurity
    I've already copied the files using getdataback & I wanted to know if it's realistic to be able to recover the hard drive w/o formatting & just copying the files back.

    Can the partition table etc be recovered/restored so I could once again access the files?
     
    drtigerlilly, Feb 26, 2011
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