Huge Killdisk Mistake

Soylent Joe · Nov 28, 2010

So I got an external 2TB drive yesterday, and moved all the info from my other 320GB and 640GB externals onto it over the night. I installed Killdisk with the intent of running it on the 2 now-empty drives, so that they'd be ready to sell.

Though a simple mistake of not looking closely enough to which drive was checked in the program, I started the kill process on the new 2TB drive, which was full of the good info.

I stopped the progress before even 1%, but it had already deleted the drive. You can see it as unallocated space in disk manager, and it needs to be formatted to NTFS for use. I have not yet formatted it to anything, it still sits as unallocated.

So is there any hope of recovering the data?

MohawkAngel · Nov 28, 2010

There is always remaining datas soewhere on the disk but the problem seems that you have killed the partition and maybe the infos at the same time. Try using a tool like Partition magic or something like that for recovery.

oily_17 · Nov 28, 2010

Maybe try some of the recovery tools mentioned in this thread -

Rescue files from harddrive?

Soylent Joe · Nov 28, 2010

I'm trying GetDataBack now. Goddommot I should have just unplugged the sensitive drive before I messed with shit :mad:

How long do you think it'd take to format 1850GB to NTFS? It's taking longer than I've ever seen a drive take.

oily_17 · Nov 28, 2010

Soylent Joe said:
How long do you think it'd take to format 1850GB to NTFS? It's taking longer than I've ever seen a drive take.

If you mean searching the drive, GetDataBack shouldnt be formatting the drive, I am not sure.

But with a 2TB drive I would say it will take a long time.

Soylent Joe · Nov 28, 2010

oily_17 said:
If you mean searching the drive, GetDataBack shouldnt be formatting the drive, I am not sure.

But with a 2TB drive I would say it will take a long time.

I've got to format it to NTFS so that GetDataBack can recognize it, and then do its thing.

Edit: I think I had it doing something wrong. I stopped and redid the format and it only took a few seconds. Running GDB nao.

JrRacinFan · Nov 28, 2010

Hmmm

Might be able to use EASEUS located here:
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm

Soylent Joe · Nov 28, 2010

Actually, I'm going to try and recover files to the two smaller drives. The data was only deleted off of them, after I transferred it to the big boy. They were never formatted or killed.

hat · Nov 28, 2010

Formatting a 2TB drive is an all day long task.

oily_17 · Nov 28, 2010

Soylent Joe said:
Actually, I'm going to try and recover files to the two smaller drives. The data was only deleted off of them, after I transferred it to the big boy. They were never formatted or killed.

Yeah , should be easier for the software to pull the data from them rather than the formatted drive.

Soylent Joe · Nov 28, 2010

oily_17 said:
Yeah , should be easier for the software to pull the data from them rather than the formatted drive.

I think it was actually cut from them to the larger drive. Could it still be recovered?

JrRacinFan · Nov 28, 2010

Soylent Joe said:
I think it was actually cut from them to the larger drive. Could it still be recovered?

Essentially, cut is just a copy+delete operation. Should recover them.

oily_17 · Nov 28, 2010

It's worth a try, should be the same as deleting them just.

EDIT: FYI, GetDataBack is not free and I think the trial version will just scan the drive and then you have to pay to recover the files.So maybe worth trying some of the free apps first.

Arctucas · Nov 28, 2010

I have used Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR) to recover some files from a formatted disk.

Tyrael · Nov 28, 2010

Here is my advice for everyone....

If you are going to kill a disk, then unplug any of your external drive which has a lot of sensitive data. After that, you may choke the disk in any way you want...

Have fun killing it and get it ready for sale if you desire.

Soylent Joe · Nov 30, 2010

OK, Z.A.R. works somewhat well, and I'd like to buy it so I can get more than 4 folders at a time (which actually is only two at a time because it counts the folder your desired folder is in) but I'm afraid to pay the $30 for it because it seems a good bit of the files are damaged. Like sometimes I'll get a folder and every picture will be fine, and other times none will work.

So is there another program known to work better than ZAR?

IggSter · Nov 30, 2010

I've used this companies software with great effect:

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/software/

I see there are free trials before you have to buy.

vagxtr · Dec 2, 2010

Soylent Joe said:
Actually, I'm going to try and recover files to the two smaller drives. The data was only deleted off of them, after I transferred it to the big boy. They were never formatted or killed.

That's just smarter move i think to propose

and probably easier and more safe. After all you never said you wiped your old drives but in fact you tried to kill data from them.

I dont know if you have only one rig available but this kind of task killing is god to do with only one drive connected on some greenish-obsolete configuration. Does this software allows multiple wipe, it's not like wiping is cpu consuming, but still .... i know the old linux distros early 2k's come with tool built into environment and i didnt ever use it but seems as nice feature vs. "win xp superior"

Soylent Joe · Dec 2, 2010

Oh my god ZAR has been scanning the 2TB for 40 hours now. Still not done.

If somehow it finds the files on there, and I extract them and they're functional, I'll buy the program so I can do another scan and actually get them all.

Or, just forget about the whole thing since it's hardly worth it.

vagxtr · Dec 2, 2010

Soylent Joe said:
Oh my god ZAR has been scanning the 2TB for 40 hours now. Still not done.

Why the heck you dont try ptdd as other recomended to you. If that's soft i think about it came as free tool and quickly recovers partitions that have been not-recognized by windows. it happened to me quite a few times whn installin new winxp and having more than disk i'm installing onto to damn xp install wipes partition tables and ptdd (i think) recover them in a matter of seconds (few minutes at worst, disc were good old 320GB ATA-133)

In my experience most of so called *recovery tools* are money minting applications that proofs themselves low worthy in real life. And best tools mostly came as freeware.

xBruce88x · Dec 2, 2010

I used a program called recuva and it worked pretty well (my friend did the same thing you did once). I did a quick format to NTFS then ran a deep can with recuva and most of the files were recovered. If i remember correctly a full format does a lot of writing to the disc and wouldn't that make it harder to recover data? whereas quick format doesn't?

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

{JNT}Raptor · Dec 2, 2010

Soylent Joe said:
So is there any hope of recovering the data?

Use Active Partition Recovery and you will not be disappointed.....I've saved terabytes of customers data with this app....It'll scan...find the partitions....and rewrite the MBR....very sweet....very simple.

Hope it helps. :toast:

xBruce88x · Dec 2, 2010

^ probably the quickest way of doing it

Soylent Joe · Dec 2, 2010

So that recovers a partition, like when the disk has been wiped of everything and shows as unallocated space. Well what if you've formatted that unallocated space to NTFS? Would it be of any help?

xBruce88x · Dec 3, 2010

dunno... I think formatting would create another MBR all together. the program i posted give the option for a deep scan but i dunno how well it'll work after doing a full format.

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