[Hg2491]

Help guys!

I thought I had transfer everything out of my extenal hdd in order to make space for the Time Machine backup, but apparently I forgot to transfer my school files of the last 5 years! Stupid me. Anyways, Its possible to get it back, right?

Any help is appreciated!
Hg+

[AKcrab]

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

[turtle777]

Your chances of recovering depend on whether you already wrote data to the disk or not.

-t

[Hg2491]

I haven't written anything on the disk. I think I have a food chance of getting my data back.

[Hg2491]

I recovered everything the other day, but today when I tried to opening some of those files, they all seem to be corrupted.

Am I screwed?

[B Gallagher]

I remember I had particular issues with .dmg files - they wouldn't mount. Hard to say if you are screwed or not - what sort of files did you try to open?

[Hg2491]

I tried Word, Pages, JPEGs, PSD, MP4.

Nothing opens!
Ughhhh.

I am so freaked out =/

[CharlesS]

You might be able to recover some of the text from the Word and Pages documents. Try typing 'strings' in the Terminal, then a space, then drag a Word document onto the Terminal window, then hit Return. See what happens.