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As everyone mentioned above, you can try a data recovery tool to help you. And I would like to recommend you a free drive recovery tool that has ever helped my friend retrieve all his data back. It is worth a shot. In case of similar problems, you should learn to make regular data backups in the...

As long as you have not rewritten all your original data, you do have chances to recover your data back. But, you should also prepare for disappointment since the rewritten data id already gone permanently. But, now, you can try a drive recovery freeware that can recover your inaccessible data...

You'd better back up your files well and test it with SeaTools for Windows: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

Have you tried to use a partition manager? http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/

This is for you: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-system/hard-disk-write-protect-to-enable-or-disable/f0c5bb0d-8e22-495c-9757-9264c7a115ac?msgId=4f4aa46c-2582-4aab-a6aa-4536dde47baf

You should read this: http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/how-to-format-a-drive-or-partition-with-the-hfs-file-system/

Why do you have to do that? As I know, the compressing process can be bad for drive performance. So, since it is your backup drive, you’d better never compress it.