Well, you didn't do a low level format, which would have taken sometime,
and totally destroyed everything. What you did was wipe out all the
directories and stuff, effectively formatting the drive. The OS has no
idea how to find files. I believe it is different than if you had taken
the whole contents of your drive to the Trash and then emptied the trash.
You need some of those specialized tools to have it examine the drive
sector by sector to salvage files. It might work, and it might not. I've
done similar recovery on my Windows XP machine using a program (which I
can't remember the name of), and it took days to run. Though it was on a
bad drive, so, that could have been some of the problem.
Your best bet still is to look at your back up, and see if that will
work for you. If it is just sound libraries, then the backup should do,
even if it is old (assuming you haven't changed your library). Unless
there is some sort of project on that drive that you absolutely need and
can't live without, or some other file you absolutely need.
If you really wanted to try to salvage it, and want to work in the mean
time, go get another drive, restore your backup to that, then when you
have free time, try running one of those recovery programs.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I took a trip to the local Apple Store (Providence Mall) and one of the
techs said to check my Trash; the files may still be there. (otherwise he
recommended a 3rd party product; thank you all for your suggestions). The
question I didn't think to ask him (until after I left, naturally)
was, the drive has not been re-formatted; but, it does not have the name I
gave it, so I'm assuming it will need to be formatted before I can
move the files back on to it. Is this true? AND, I do understand there is
a distinction between recovering formatted disks and Un-deleting. What I
need is un-delete. I'm assuming if I re-format, all chances of
recovering the files are lost; yes, or no?
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