I formatted the wrong drive AGAIN!
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Przepraszam
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 02:55    Post subject: I formatted the wrong drive AGAIN!
This has happened for the second time in under three months

Last time I was able to recover all my music folder that is ~230GB roughly around 25,000 songs...

so im running undelete recuva and it's only able to recover ~7500 songs!

Maybe getbackdata for ntfs will be able to recover more but doubt it since I put some files on that formatted drive and as I understand thats bad since sectors are being overwritten?

anyhow. I have 5 HDD. One is 128GB, 1TB, 300GB and 2x250GB.
And I always have to format the wrong drive between the 250gb's hdds

I always have to mix them up when I format due to same size ><
and i was not even drunk Crying or Very sad Crying or Very sad


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 03:15    Post subject:
I have only done this once and will NEVER do it again. 1TB of films, music and games is a lot to lose. Sad


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 03:55    Post subject:
I always disconnect all drives I need to be save before formatting anything. Might be overly protective, but it's the safest you can get.


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 05:10    Post subject: Re: I formatted the wrong drive AGAIN!
besthijacker wrote:
Maybe getbackdata for ntfs will be able to recover more but doubt it since I put some files on that formatted drive and as I understand thats bad since sectors are being overwritten?

I think that's exactly how it works. Ouch! Embarassed

With quick format files aren't being physically deleted from disk. However, once overwritten lots of data gets lost so it maybe very difficult to recover anything.

But I'm no expert so hopefully I might be wrong.


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 06:17    Post subject:
GetDataBack found ~19,000 songs out of ~25,000
but ~5000 are somehow less below 1mb,,,ehh

and majority of them are named just some 6 digits numbers..I guess better that then losing everything :\


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bringiton




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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 06:18    Post subject:
As long as the id-tags are fine it shouldn't be a problem Smile


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 10:10    Post subject:
Again? Laughing

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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 10:42    Post subject:
Lathieza wrote:
Again? Laughing

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FFS besthijacker... Neutral Laughing


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 11:24    Post subject:
You really do need that LASIK Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 14:27    Post subject:
BearishSun wrote:
You really do need that LASIK Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 21:30    Post subject:
man.... That sucks Laughing


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PostPosted: Thu, 1st Mar 2012 23:49    Post subject:
I have 1TB + 2TB external drives and I never unintentionally fomat anything. The only times I could fuck up was the begining of 2000 where everything was CDs and sometimes when computer didnt read a RW disc properly I would erase precious data. Otherwise you are a very distrait person.
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 00:24    Post subject:
How do you accidentally format the wrong drive ? Confused I mean, except for the obvious answer: being drunk, high, etc. but really - you go to the right drive, right click the drive name and choose format - you can actually SEE the drive's content this way.
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 05:10    Post subject:
red_avatar wrote:
How do you accidentally format the wrong drive ? Confused I mean, except for the obvious answer: being drunk, high, etc. but really - you go to the right drive, right click the drive name and choose format - you can actually SEE the drive's content this way.


With 5 HDD's and about 10 partitions is quite hard.

I got Xbox 360 JTAG that day, I was moving folders left and right to empty one of those 250GB HDD's. I also took out drive with music, put it to docking station and connected other drive to PC. I formatted it. Then swap those HDD's again but then I dont know what happened. I had 250GB empty drive connected to PC with name XBOX, So I just have somehow formatted HDD labeled as MUSIC...

Ehh, it was pretty hectic was I was excited for JTAG! And only had one beer!


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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 13:18    Post subject:
besthijacker wrote:
With 5 HDD's and about 10 partitions is quite hard.
Sorry, but no.
Name all of your partitions (most programs will display their name when you're about to format it), check the partition letter, check it's size or as last resort double and/or triple check that that IS the partition you intend to format.

Besides, based on your posts I still think that it was a case of teh drunik. Razz


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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 14:06    Post subject:
Why the fuck do you have that many partitions in the first place Neutral
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 14:09    Post subject:
System, games, media is the only partitions I have.
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Przepraszam
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 14:16    Post subject:
well, i might have added few extra xD, but yea, i have windows, my stuff, games, tvshows, anime, music, another drive is named after me with random stuff in it

i only look at drive size while formatting, and those two happen to have same about of storage.

But I only have partition with 1 TB & 300GB hdd's, the two 20gb's have no partition are just named Music and other one is Anime.


I wasn't drunk..just must have been really disctracted ehh

I recovered some music but they are without folders and they just sit in one folder, don't even know how to start putting them back where they belong by genre and then artist >>


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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 14:44    Post subject:
Why do you keep everything on a drive in the first place? All the music is available online, streaming, legal anyways. Plug in your mobile device, one of your zillion computers or your regular desktop and you have access to your music. Can't get much handier than that Smile

PLus you cant delete them accidentally:D
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 15:26    Post subject:
spankie wrote:
All the music is available online, streaming, legal anyways.


Mainstream genres maybe.
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 15:41    Post subject:
inz wrote:
spankie wrote:
All the music is available online, streaming, legal anyways.


Mainstream genres maybe.


I don't know, I find that every obscure start up musician has a youtube page nowadays. But the real reason why to keep them on the drive, is because online sources have low quality.
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 17:03    Post subject:
Change tactics, do it drunk the next time and ill sure you'll format the right drive Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 17:33    Post subject:
You would've probably formatted the right drive if you WERE drunk on vodka.
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 17:42    Post subject:
10 partitions??? I have just ONE!!! I'm fine with it.
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 17:54    Post subject:
10 partitions. welcome to the 90's
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PostPosted: Fri, 2nd Mar 2012 17:56    Post subject:
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