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Data recovery after accidental format of my USB drive

  • 02-07-2014 07:09AM
    #1
    PenguinForce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭


    Hi all, yesterday I accidentally formatted my USB drive and I am trying to find a way to recover the data for free.

    I've tried around 3 to 4 tools but all of them ends up requiring me to pay around $60 after all the scanning was done. One of these tools seems to only recover up to ten files in the free version.

    I have around 10gb+ of data on that drive although they are not very important I would want to recover them.

    Can anyone suggest a free tool to do this.

    Thanks :)


Comments

  • #2
    yoyo
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,017 Mod ✭✭✭✭yoyo


    PhotoREC, Recuva you could try. Just keep in mind to recover onto another drive! Recovering on the formatted disk will overwrite it's contents!

    Nick

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  • #3
    advertsfox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭advertsfox


    +1 with Recuva as the best free method. Make sure you do not use that USB at ALL because any new writing to it could overwrite the old data.


  • #4
    PenguinForce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭PenguinForce


    Thanks for the suggestions. I will give them a goal when I'm off work.


  • #5
    GoodLord
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭GoodLord


    PenguinForce wrote: »
    Hi all, yesterday I accidentally formatted my USB drive and I am trying to find a way to recover the data for free.

    I've tried around 3 to 4 tools but all of them ends up requiring me to pay around $60 after all the scanning was done. One of these tools seems to only recover up to ten files in the free version.

    I have around 10gb+ of data on that drive although they are not very important I would want to recover them.

    Can anyone suggest a free tool to do this.

    Thanks :)
    Try this. Let us know what worked.


  • #6
    PenguinForce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 357 ✭✭PenguinForce


    I used testdisk from the PhotoRec download and worked perfectly. All everything back.

    Cheers for the suggestions :)


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