External hard drive

[dickdastardly]

Hello,
lacie 1 tb external hard drive was accidentally reformatted to8gb now cannot access previous data

 

[kajabla]

You'll have to use some kind of recovery software. You could pay a tech store to do it for you, but it'd be expensive. If you haven't done much to the drive since then (don't do ANYTHING), it should work.

 

[Ubrales]

First, stop writing to the drive. Download 'RECUVA' and see whether that helps.

Here are a whole bunch of data recovery programs, some free - https://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS359&q=hard+drive+write+only&btnG=Google+Search#pq=data+recovery&hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&tok=_XFRefllme5fFxsFsZDgiw&cp=16&gs_id=1y&xhr=t&q=data+recovery+software&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS359&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=data+recovery+so&aq=0e&aqi=g-e2g2&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=1ac5b1897ec389df&biw=1280&bih=907