Question Wiped the same drive twice in 6 months by accident. - - - how is this possible ?

[SyCoREAPER]

How is my luck this <Mod Edit>. bad. Fat fingered in diskpart about 6 months ago and cleaned the wrong drive.

Just now, Disk Management, figured I can't fat finger a GUI, had a drive selected I wanted to format. Made sure it was the right one. Refreshed just to make sure.

Format, low and behold GD Windows.. screen flashes, format begins and it's not only the wrong drive but the same one as last time.

I'm about to just snap this stupid NVMe SSD in half with how unlucky it's been. NEVER in over 30 years of computing have I formatted the wrong storage device -- till now.

/rant
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Going to Bed Depressed
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[KingLoki]

If the drive has not been overwritten, you could try recovery software for a start. Cheers

 

[SyCoREAPER]

If the drive has not been overwritten, you could try recovery software for a start. Cheers

I did. Been up until now trying different methods making sure nothing like TRIM would interfere or write to it in the meantime. Can't take it out because of course it's in the slot under the 4090 so I can't get to it. So removing the drive letter was another precaution. Anyway. Nothing worked. It found some of the structure, none of the files. I think it was mostly games so now I'll let me ISP wonder why I downloaded 2TB in less than a day not accounting for the streaming.**

Ironically and in forgot to mention this, the drive that was supposed to be formatted was to back up the one that got erased.

**Angry rant because I'm tired and need to get to bed before getting up in 30 seconds for work. Crapcasts data cap is 1.2TB for the MONTH in some states. Glad i don't use them. That's BS and should be illegal.

 

[KingLoki]

So are you not getting any recovery of files at all?

 

[CountMike]

How is my luck this f'ing bad. Fat fingered in diskpart about 6 months and cleaned the wrong drive.

Just now, Disk Management, figured I can't fat finger a GUI, had a drive selected I wanted to format. Made sure it was the right one. Refreshed just to make sure.

Format, low and behold GD Windows.. screen flashes, format begins and it's not only the wrong drive but the same one as last time.

I'm about to just snap this stupid Nvme in half with how unlucky it's been. NEVER in over 30 years of computing have I deleted the wrong disk or drive.

/rant
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Going to Bed Depressed
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Been there, done that, now keeping full and regularly updated offline backup. Any problem and back in business in half an hour.
PS. not formatting after midnight.

 

[dwd999]

Why are you using diskpart or disk management and doing this the hard way. All you need to do is click on This PC and then right-click on the drive you want to format, select the format option from the context menu and all should be OK.

 

[USAFRet]

Why are you using diskpart or disk management and doing this the hard way. All you need to do is click on This PC and then right-click on the drive you want to format, select the format option from the context menu and all should be OK.

People make mistakes that way as well.

A good backup routine is your friend.

 

[mmp09]

Look for some third-party Windows PE/Live Windows bootable discs. Boot thru them and see if there are any partition recovery tools on it that might be able to recover.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

How is my luck this f'ing bad. Fat fingered in diskpart about 6 months ago and cleaned the wrong drive.

Just now, Disk Management, figured I can't fat finger a GUI, had a drive selected I wanted to format. Made sure it was the right one. Refreshed just to make sure.

Format, low and behold GD Windows.. screen flashes, format begins and it's not only the wrong drive but the same one as last time.

I'm about to just snap this stupid NVMe SSD in half with how unlucky it's been. NEVER in over 30 years of computing have I formatted the wrong storage device -- till now.

/rant
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Going to Bed Depressed
}

This is why you physically remove all drives except the one you intend to manipulate. You do this no matter how annoying it may be.

 

[JeffreyP55]

How is my luck this f'ing bad. Fat fingered in diskpart about 6 months ago and cleaned the wrong drive.

Just now, Disk Management, figured I can't fat finger a GUI, had a drive selected I wanted to format. Made sure it was the right one. Refreshed just to make sure.

Format, low and behold GD Windows.. screen flashes, format begins and it's not only the wrong drive but the same one as last time.

I'm about to just snap this stupid NVMe SSD in half with how unlucky it's been. NEVER in over 30 years of computing have I formatted the wrong storage device -- till now.

/rant
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Going to Bed Depressed
}

I see you didn't learn the first time to make backups. Depending on the amount of data transfer within a given time I decide how often to backup. Once a week has saved me a few times.
I recommend Acronis. Yes, you pay for it. Buy a backup drive, maybe external USB drive and get busy. Well, next time anyway...