i acidentally wrote mbr on an external while making a bootable usb & and now its corrupted the terribyte disk....can i undo th

[brazen0ne]

i have 15 years of collected mp3'z,all my .iso's,movies,etc. and will lose it all unless someone can help me undo my stupid error, i was using a usb bootable program and accidentally strated writing the mbr,to the t.byte drive, i have now successfully made it so it says format to gain access - someone please help me with my delemma

 

[Mattios]

This is an expensive lesson to back up your data.

Can you see the drive in my computer or disk management? If so, is it formatted?

 

[Coup77]

Try this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk .

It allows you to recover deleted partitions. *USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!*

 

[darlingm]

*IF* all you did was write over your MBR, yes, all the data is still there and recoverable with the proper programs and skill. Do NOT reformat the drive. This is very much an at your own risk project. If the data is that important to you, you may want to hire a data recovery expert. That being said, this is one of the easiest cases a data recovery company would get, and it is very much DIY'able... But at your own risk because it could of course get screwed up! There are many programs that attempt to rebuild a MBR, or recover files from a drive with a deleted MBR. Of course, since you aren't reformatting, you'll need to run this on a different drive with a different install, and have your recovery drive in there as an additional.