Accidently cancelled formatting my ext hard drive while it was formatting

[broadjumper62]

now win 7 doesn't see it.i have family records that can't be replaced. help

 

[aicom]

Why were you formatting a drive with important data on it?

 

[po1nted]

now win 7 doesn't see it.i have family records that can't be replaced. help

Why were you formatting a drive that had family records on it? Sounds like you lost the data before you hit cancel if you were doing that.

You could try a solution like this:

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

If the information is absolutely critical then you could try a service such as Ontrack:

http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/