1TB of BluRay movies. Can they be recovered?

[miba54]

Hi. I accidentally formatted my 1TB hard drive which mostly contained BluRay movies. There was absolutely no damage to the drive. I tried Recuva and EASUS but I didn't get very good results. Is there any chance these files can be recovered with a data recovery software or are movies too hard to recover? Also another question, if softwares don't help, can data recovery devices bring back these kind of files?

(The hard drive's model is WD15EARS)

Thanks.

 

[Mankar Kameran]

If you formatted your hard drive then everything is gone.

 

[USAFRet]

After formatting, those tools can often be quite successful.
However....getting back LARGE things like movies all in one piece is nearly impossible.

If you tried Recuva, etc...and it didn't work, the only recourse is to pay someone $$$$

 

[miba54]

If you formatted your hard drive then everything is gone.

Yes they are gone but they are not overwritten. I was led to believe that some files can be brought back via some good recovery softwares.

 

[USAFRet]

If you formatted your hard drive then everything is gone.

Yes they are gone but they are not overwritten. I was led to believe that some files can be brought back via some good recovery softwares.

There is a difference in bringing back a 2k text file, and bringing back 10GB of a movie so that it still plays properly.
A BIG difference.

 

[miba54]

After formatting, those tools can often be quite successful.
However....getting back LARGE things like movies all in one piece is nearly impossible.

If you tried Recuva, etc...and it didn't work, the only recourse is to pay someone $$$$

Yeap, that was my guess as well. But after some research I found that these people you pay money to recover your files use some kind of a device to do the magic. They plug your hard drive to this device and the files come back. If you have any info about these devices, can you please tell me what they are called or if they are obtainable?

 

[USAFRet]

No, I don't have any specific info about those. But it's not just some magic device...you're also paying for the experience and skill not to make things worse.

 

[TyrOd]

After formatting, those tools can often be quite successful.
However....getting back LARGE things like movies all in one piece is nearly impossible.

If you tried Recuva, etc...and it didn't work, the only recourse is to pay someone $$$$

Yeap, that was my guess as well. But after some research I found that these people you pay money to recover your files use some kind of a device to do the magic. They plug your hard drive to this device and the files come back. If you have any info about these devices, can you please tell me what they are called or if they are obtainable?

The hardware for imaging unstable drives is only relevant to physical drive problems(and for write-back protection).

Recovering large files after a reformat is difficult and time consuming for a different reason and simply requires expert knowledge in identifying, carving out and piecing together the fragments of the file when file system information marking the locations is missing(due to reformat).

As long as the engineer has a lot of experience, getting back playable data is still very possible just also very costly.

Good news is there are a few reputable companies out there with no-data, no-charge guarantees and high success rates.

For example there is ACE Data Recovery, which is who I would recommend.

Check the WD data recovery support site for a more comprehensive list.

http://support.wdc.com/Warranty/dataRecovery.aspx?lang=en

 

[popatim]

When you formatted the drive. did you select quick format or did you run a full format?

 

[CountMike]

EAsus Data Recovery Wizard can unformat freshly formatted disk.