Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc. Is there any way to recover it? It had 150 G
of films, news and importat TV-programs I have recorded
for my son.

If I connect the HDD to my computer it can't be seen.
The structure must be some kind of very simple and
I need a program which can see it. Any suggestions?
Some kind of very flexible recovery program.

Thank you very much!
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In message , Matti Kaki
writes
Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc.

I won't comment...

Is there any way to recover it? It had 150 G
of films, news and importat TV-programs I have recorded
for my son.

You can invest £38 in Hard Disk Mechanic from he
http://highergroundsoftware.com/products2.htm

Or get a pro company to do it. It will cost you though. Here's a couple
of outfits (I don't endorse either of them BTW):

http://www.datarecoverydirect.co.uk
http://www.dataemergency.co.uk/hard_drive.htm


If I connect the HDD to my computer it can't be seen.

This shouldn't happen. Check your BIOS (press DEL while booting the
computer). Then try running the new hardware wizard in the Control Panel
(Add New Hardware option).


But if you've re-formatted even if you can see the drive, you've lost
the data.

The structure must be some kind of very simple and
I need a program which can see it. Any suggestions?
Some kind of very flexible recovery program.

Thank you very much!

And if you do get your data back - BACKUP REGULARLY !!!!!!

--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

Tony Morgan wrote:
In message , Matti Kaki
writes
Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc.

I won't comment...

snip

But if you've re-formatted even if you can see the drive, you've lost
the data.

not true, there are ways and means. even after a format there will be some
recoverable data but as it's films (large files) rather than, say, jpegs / txts
(small files) the data that /will/ be recoverable will probably be far too
fragmented to be used as a movie. some of the shorter items will be ok.

if the OP posts the same question in uk.adverts.computer and asks for
a bloke called odie ferrous (data recovery) he'll be given a load more info

all boils down to how much £ the data is worth as to how much the OP is
willing to spend on recovery but FWIW I'd try a few (ahem) free downloaded
apps from usenet and see what I could recover before shelling out.



RT

In message , "[news]"
writes
Tony Morgan wrote:
In message , Matti Kaki
writes
Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc.

I won't comment...

snip

But if you've re-formatted even if you can see the drive, you've lost
the data.

not true,

If you tried reading the above in context you wouldn't have come in here
(Hint:... Hard Disk Mechanic...).

there are ways and means. even after a format there will be some
recoverable data but as it's films (large files) rather than, say, jpegs / txts
(small files) the data that /will/ be recoverable will probably be far too
fragmented to be used as a movie. some of the shorter items will be ok.

Now it's you who's wrong. Files are not fragmented as you say. If you
reformat, all that does is clear and rewrite the FAT structure. The data
on the rest of the disk is intact exactly as it was before you
reformatted. Unfortunately all the files are there, but no directories,
so using Hard Disk Mechanic you can retrieve all your files - but you
then have sort them into directories. In tekkie terms, each block of
every file is terminated with a checksum and a pointer to the next block
in that file. The last block of each file has an EOF.

As this is with the proviso that you don't write new data to the disk
after it was re-formatted.

--
Tony Morgan
http://www.camcord.info

Tony Morgan wrote:
In message , "[news]"
writes
Tony Morgan wrote:
In message , Matti Kaki
writes
Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc.

I won't comment...

snip

But if you've re-formatted even if you can see the drive, you've
lost
the data.

not true,

If you tried reading the above in context you wouldn't have come in
here (Hint:... Hard Disk Mechanic...).

hard disk mechanic ? come 'in here' ?

'course, I forgot, that's what the professional data recovery bods use

ah well, you know best, tone, as you were.



RT

In article , says...


In message , Matti Kaki
writes
Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc.

I won't comment...

:-) :-| :-(

Is there any way to recover it? It had 150 G
of films, news and importat TV-programs I have recorded
for my son.

You can invest £38 in Hard Disk Mechanic from he
http://highergroundsoftware.com/products2.htm

Interesting. Never heard before. I tried using Partition Magic
but it couldn't help much. It showed following information:

================================================== ====================

Disk Geometry Information for Disk 3:

16709 Cylinders, 255 Heads, 63 Sectors/Track

Info: No partition table present on this drive.

System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS
ECyl Head Sect StartSect NumSects

================================================== ====================

Partition Information for Disk 3: 131,069.4 Megabytes

Volume PartType Status Size MB PartSect # StartSect
TotalSects UsedSects FreeSects

Free Space Pri 131,069.4 None -- 0 268,430,085 0 268,430,085
268,430,085 0 268,430,085

================================================== =====================

If I connect the HDD to my computer it can't be seen.

This shouldn't happen. Check your BIOS (press DEL while booting the
computer). Then try running the new hardware wizard in the Control Panel
(Add New Hardware option).

It shows when I boot but Windos (XP) doesn't understand it.
The structure is something simple and perhaps custom-made.

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Matti Kaki at iki dot fi http://www.sci.fi/~oh2bio
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In article , lid
says...


Hello.

I did it again. Accidentally formatted my Sony RDR-HX 900
hard disc. Is there any way to recover it? It had 150 G
of films, news and importat TV-programs I have recorded
for my son.

If I connect the HDD to my computer it can't be seen.
The structure must be some kind of very simple and
I need a program which can see it. Any suggestions?
Some kind of very flexible recovery program.


How about "Fix UDF"?

http://www.softarch.com/us/products/...utilities.html

If it is UDF this could do the job.

--
Matti Kaki at iki dot fi http://www.sci.fi/~oh2bio
=========== Location: 60.414 N 25.097 E ===========
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