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hard drive recovery

  • 10-04-2015 6:49am
    #1
    denleno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭


    Please someone help me if you can.
    a few months ago i stupidly formatted my 1tb seagate external harddrive. The reason i did this was so it could be used as a back up location for my macbook pro.

    before formatting i created a new folder in my macbook desktop and transferred all my harddrive files there. Since then i have backed up my macbook to the hard drive several times


    I thought that all was ok until earlier this evening i tried to access some of my old files that i transferred to the mac. I discovered that my files were unable to be opened. "Aliases" had been created but they too are not accessible.

    I downloaded a few software programs like recuva to see if i could recover my old files but i had no luck. Can anyone tell me if it is possible? Please. Years of photographs and hard work gone otherwise

       


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Where are you trying to recover from, the Macbook or the External Harddrive?

    What is the filesystem, i.e., Fat, HFS+, etc...

    Where ever this data resides, do not use this device...

    There are tools out there, I would use testdisk for this..


  • #3
    denleno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭denleno


    I have no idea what kind of filesystem. I am not very tech savvy! Initially I was trying to recover from just the hard drive but I know that the files existed on the macbook at some point also. Should I just take it to someone who knows what they are looking at?


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