HELP - Started writing zeros to wrong drive!

[StupidComputers]

So I have two external seagate drives, I meant to erase one accidentally started on the other one. There was some weird invisible partition that only WDDIAG could destroy.. and it did. The various data recovery software says it can't find an NTFS file structure (or FAT tried that too).

I barely started the process, the weird partition was removed and the zeros began to write to the drive for a under a min before I was like OH NOES WRONG DRIVE! I'm stupid and was careless with one mouse click and now 2 TB of important data is gone.. but hopefully not forever ..

Any Ideas? I tried getdataback, nothin. About to try recuva, not hopeful.. nothing was overwritten aside from the partition and maybe a couple gigs if that. Deep scan, cross fingers, otherwise grateful for any suggestions, thanks


P.S. I'm thinking a quick format to reinitialize some sort of ntfs file system- good idea//bad idea?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Restore from your most current backup. You DID make a backup, yes?

If consumer grade recovery software cannot locate your data then you only have one alternative and that's to take the drive to a recovery service. Be prepared to pay handsomely and do not expect full recovery.

 

[StupidComputers]

It was the backup... the original internal drive was failing... using disk doctors data recovery atm, it's trying to rebuild the weird partition.
Update: killed that cuz it doesn't show much, but after a while it still said 0 folder 0 files etc recovered. nix!
Possible (don't jinx myself) FTW: EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Technician, found over 5000 files in a few min, no prob locating the "lost partition" drive, just 5.5 hours left to see if the files are readable.... yay?

 

[StupidComputers]

Well it found more than 2.6TB of info on a 2TB drive and the file names are gone... assigned new names/numbers. I blanked on doing the deep scan after to as a possible remedy. Import/export results doesn't work, so I guess I'll start from scratch once my new drive arrives because for some reason it can't just restore it, but that's ok, I get most of it back with surprise names! Better than nothing, and definitely every other program that I could find.