Hello there, i'm not sure if this is the right place for this because this is my first post.
Recently my nephew accidentally formatted my sisters external hard drive by plugging it into the Xbox, he has wiped everything off and I don't know how to recover it, if it is even recoverable.
I tried two quick scans on Recuva and EaseUS but both returned nothing. I'm currently running the recuva deep scan but i'm not sure if it will find anything, i've heard that the format might have zeroed(?) the hard drive, though i'm not entirely sure on that.
We haven't used the hard drive since it was formatted, everything has stayed the same as far as i'm aware. The only thing I have done is plugged it into a different computer (mine) and tried to recover the data.
We would be willing to go to professionals but would prefer it if we could sort it out at home due to the professional services apparently being very expensive.
Any help is very much appreciated as my sister could lose all her uni work and her job placement if we can't recover it.
Thanks for reading.
Recently my nephew accidentally formatted my sisters external hard drive by plugging it into the Xbox, he has wiped everything off and I don't know how to recover it, if it is even recoverable.
I tried two quick scans on Recuva and EaseUS but both returned nothing. I'm currently running the recuva deep scan but i'm not sure if it will find anything, i've heard that the format might have zeroed(?) the hard drive, though i'm not entirely sure on that.
We haven't used the hard drive since it was formatted, everything has stayed the same as far as i'm aware. The only thing I have done is plugged it into a different computer (mine) and tried to recover the data.
We would be willing to go to professionals but would prefer it if we could sort it out at home due to the professional services apparently being very expensive.
Any help is very much appreciated as my sister could lose all her uni work and her job placement if we can't recover it.
Thanks for reading.