Probably your best option would be to try to run UnErase searching for File Types.
If you had Norton Utilities installed on your machine prior to the crash, Volume Assist would have been able to create a "back-up" of your drive's directory, so that when your drive was accidentily initialized you would have been able to simply restore the backup of the lost directory. More than likely, the majority of your files would have been recovered.
Since there are no Volume Assist or FileSaver Volume files, Volume Recover wouldn't have anything to "recover from" to restore your disk. Your only real option would be to run UnErase and hope that the File Type Templates that we include match your lost data. Note that if you have files that do not match the included file types that you can optionally create your own template(s).
Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any more questions.
-Nick
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Symantec Corp.
Originally posted by edavis:
I inadvertantly erased my external 80 GB hard drive while attempting to erase a DVD-RW using Disk Utility.
Since it happened so quick, I am sure that I did not do a low-level format of the drive, so I believe the 36+ GB of data is still in there somewhere.
I purchased Norton Utlities to attempt to recover the data. I selected Volume Restore, and the Search for More type option when the quick scan didn't find anything. After 40+ hours of searching, it still didn't find a single file on the drive!
Anyone have any experience recovering data from an erased drive? Please helP!!!!! What might I be doing wrong?
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