Some people are born stupid. Today, I count myself among those ranks. There's mistaking one drive for another. No big. But mistaking your external drive for the (extremely) expendable, empty drive that you're slaving just to format?
Lots of work... Gotta sit down and rescan everything OTL
I'm so glad I didn't throw away the volumes like I had planned.
Considering each volume can take 2+ hours to scan (and even MORE time to touch up), I can kiss my week goodbye. And here I was looking forward to gaming time once the kids started school =/
Was it a full format or a quick format? Embarrassingly, I can't say for sure, but a quick format may have just wiped the file index .. so all the raw data would be still there if you used recovery software.
It was a quick format (a type I normally avoid but thankfully didn't in this case), so I've been running recovery scans on the drive. Everything I've recovered so far has been corrupted, so hopefully I'll have better luck with a different sort of scan.
It's terribly frustrating to be able to see every. single. file. that's on the hard drive, having the recovered file be about the same size as the old one, and then it just can't be opened. This is driving me insane! Just gotta keep telling myelf that I scanned this all in, so it's still recoverable, I didn't lose anything permanently except hours of work but it's not gone forever, etc, etc.
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I'm so glad I didn't throw away the volumes like I had planned.
Considering each volume can take 2+ hours to scan (and even MORE time to touch up), I can kiss my week goodbye. And here I was looking forward to gaming time once the kids started school =/
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Was it a full format or a quick format? Embarrassingly, I can't say for sure, but a quick format may have just wiped the file index .. so all the raw data would be still there if you used recovery software.
I think. x.x
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It was a quick format (a type I normally avoid but thankfully didn't in this case), so I've been running recovery scans on the drive. Everything I've recovered so far has been corrupted, so hopefully I'll have better luck with a different sort of scan.
It's terribly frustrating to be able to see every. single. file. that's on the hard drive, having the recovered file be about the same size as the old one, and then it just can't be opened. This is driving me insane! Just gotta keep telling myelf that I scanned this all in, so it's still recoverable, I didn't lose anything permanently except hours of work but it's not gone forever, etc, etc.
Agh, damn, my brain.
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