Formatted Drive Data Recovery?

[soyuchi]

Hey guys

This question has probably been asked thousands of times but recently i installed a new SSD and new HDD to my PC with an already existing 2TB HDD. I then did the following:

1)I removed my existing HDD, installed the new SSD & HDD then installed windows on my SSD.

2) I put my old HDD back in and transferred my important files to my new HDD

3)I went into disk management and deleted the old HDD's partition and formatted it again (not a quick format) and went to bed

4) I woke up and the files i supposedly transferred weren't there anymore.

5) I have tried to recover my old partition's files with Test Disk and various other programs similar to it to no avail

Now my question is, is my data lost forever because i re-formatted it? Or is there a method that can possibly save my data?

Thank you in advance for your replies.

PS. I have not installed or put any new files into my re-formatted old HDD

 

[USAFRet]

deleted the old HDD's partition and formatted it again (not a quick format)

Test Disk and various other programs similar to it to no avail

If you've tried the typical userspace tools, and nothing appears....you are out of luck outside of an expensive data recovery company.

Possibly try this partition recovery application:
http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

 

[reedo_43]

Get Data back for ntfs is great and will probably work but it is not free. You could try Recuva which is free but nowhere as good.

 

[Paperdoc]

If you did a Full Format on the entire old HDD (after re-Partitioning), in modern versions of Windows that means it WROTE all zeroes to everywhere. This completely destroyed all your old data by overwriting it. No common data recovery software could get any old data back after that.

If that is what happened, the only EXTREMELY UNLIKELY hope of recovering data is to send it to a sophisticated (high priced) data recovery service that can recover the weak traces of the old data from Sectors already overwritten with zeroes. At best, that sort of work is VERY long and highly prone to errors and unlikely to recover all of the old data. Bottom line: it's all gone!

Now, do you have any idea why the NEW HDD appears to have nothing on it? You thought you had copied everything from old to new, right? Did you ever check to see whether the new HDD had the copied data on it? If you KNOW it did have it at one time, then there may be hope of recovering the data there. After all, your tale does NOT include wiping out or Formatting the NEW HDD after the copying operation.

 

[reedo_43]

Windows does not do a fbi wipe ie. ones and zeros. Get data back for ntfs as I stated above, will probably be able to recover the data. I have used it many times. Good luck!