I was wondering if anyone could help if there is a program or someone who can help me?

I have 750gb external hard drive full of movies my brother decided to use it to watch some movies... he took to his friends house who has mac and decided to format it into mac... is it possible to recover any of it???

guess your just gonna have to re-rip them from your dvd collection again.

the first thing you should do is to bash your brother and his friend. its only fair.

I'm f***ing over these threads. For f*** sake there is at least one a week.

So what did you learn from that?

I'd send Dodgymon a PM to help you with your problem.

you could try rstudio on it

thanks for your help guys.... i did bash him.. but it didnt get my movies back... but did give satisfaction

try getdataback or rstudio, you should be able to get it back

stellar phoenix has never failed me

I'm f***ing over these threads. For f*** sake there is at least one a week

Settle down princess. This is a computer related site after all.

8-)

as skitza said - get data back or rstudio

here's a cool recovery story

did some work on a very important (24x7) PC once - some bozo tech had some and reimaged the PC not realising there was gigs and gigs of data (rosters, templates, forms) on the PC and the PC kinda acted as a server for a few others. Ran get data back for NTFS on the drive - it took FOREVER but i got every single piece of data back. i was rewarded nicely for that one.

The entire filesystem has been rewritten... its a bit different to just quick formatting a drive.

yes

I'm considering purchasing a license for Ontrack an going commercial. I really should do more than just think about it...

is it possible to recover any of it???

so.... didya?

i dont have another 750gb to copy the s*** over too... :( havent really tried yet...

another vote for get data back. i started a thread like this a while ago and lost only a small amount of data due to physical drive damage. almost all was recovered.

Ok used GetDataback and it worked like a charm... copying the content to another drive now.. all looking good :) thanks guys!

What software would you guys recommend for a physically damaged disk.

I am currently trying Acronis disk director - running off the boot CD - it can see things, not sure if it can recover what I need yet as it's taking ages as it's obviously running into s***loads of rooted sectors.

r-studio

It's awesome. Buy it.

Doesn't detect the drive under windows, does it have a boot disk capability ?

hmm, not sure, sorry. I've always recovered off drives that were detected under windows.

the problem i am having now is how to format the hard drive back to mbr and NTFS? just seem not be able to do it....

gparted if things are difficult to format