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 <Mod Edit> 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 <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
{
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 <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
{
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...

 

[faalin]

Just a thought....... make the drive letter Z and the name of the drive DO NOT FORMAT ME, could help in the long run of not formatting the drive again.

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Just a thought....... make the drive letter Z and the name of the drive DO NOT FORMAT ME, could help in the long run of not formatting the drive again.

 

[SyCoREAPER]

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

Outside of the structure, 1 .dat file lol. Needless to say that wasn't a success.

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.

That was the plan and usually I'm pretty alert at midnight but good advice. I still don't know what Windows did to change it.

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.

As I said that was the first time. Second time I used Disk Manager but despite what I clicked, it formatted a different disk.

People make mistakes that way as well.

A good backup routine is your friend.

That was the plan and what I was going to do. Format the intended disk and clone the one that erroneously got erased.

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.

Tried three of the major ones that people said had the highest success rate. Two did diddlysquat, third found one file and the structure.

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.

My concern with that is the number of reports of cracked PCBs at the PCIe connector on GPUs as well as removing that stupid 12VHPWR connector that I know is properly seated on mine.
Didn't seem like it was worth the risk to take a drive offline fully that was already eased and low chance of recovery.

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...

I see you didn't read.
I was in the process of backing up. As I said I was prepping the drive that was to be backuup/clone for the one that got wiped from the first time.

 

[USAFRet]

As I said I was prepping the drive that was to be backuup/clone for the one that got wiped from the first time.

Thats why backups need to happen ALL the time, not just to prep before a major upgrade.

If any (or all) of my drives were to be accidentally formatted right now, at most I've lost a few hours work.