[disectamac]

Briefly what happened:

I was trying to initialize a new 80 GB PB HD and so I did and the window states the disk will be formatted at 74.5GB....MacOSextended. Then I plug in my 80GB External HD (the one with all my goodies on it) to my laptop via Firewire. A wait a few moments and a message pops up, "this disk is not recognized do you wish to initialize....74.5GB...MacOSextended...". For some reason my brain didn't connect the message to the HD i just plugged in. Call me dumb, I thought for a brief moment, the message was referring to the PB HD. I remember saying, "how odd for this thing to ask me to initialized my PB HD drive again. So I clicked OK. I realized my error about 2 seconds into initialization but it just so happens that 2 seconds is all it takes to initialize a disk.

needless to say the disk is blank now but I just know in my heart all my information is still on that drive, just waiting to be recovered.

What do you suggest I try? I was going to try norton and some other software but I really wanted to get opinions, advice from here before I touch the HD.

[tooki]

Buy and run Data Rescue http://www.prosoftengineering.com/pr...ata_rescue.php

It takes *forever* and then some to do its thing, but it does work.

Note that you will need another drive to recover the data onto: it will not alter the disk it's recovering the data from.

tooki

[heresiarh]

Goodluck.

[disectamac]

The software looks promising. I'll give it a shot. Thanks Tooki.