Everything on my HDD gone!!!

[joysleep1]

Hey Guys

So yesterday, i kept getting some timeshift error message everytime i zapped to a different channel. I wish i took a photo of the error so i can remember exactly what it said. It was not a massive deal because you just acknowledge it and then timeshift still works but the message kept coming after changing channel.

So i faffed around with my hardrive and intialised it or converted ex3 to ex4 or something like that because i think the error messefe said something like that.

All of a sudden my hardrive has been wiped. It is a 2 TB WD hardrive. So far it has been perfect. The hardrive works fine but everything has gone. Around 1.5TB worth of stuff has just disappeared. I do not know if this was the HD fault or my receiver?

Is there anyway i can get my stuff back?

[aido]

If you initialised the disk that means you formatted it - what format was it in before you did that?

[aido]

Recuva should work with any format it was in:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[joysleep1]

If you initialised the disk that means you formatted it - what format was it in before you did that?

Oh shoot. I had no idea that it would do that. I am such an idiot. I can not remember what format it was on. I think EX3.
So there is no way of recovering it without taking it out. ??

[joysleep1]

Recuva should work with any format it was in:

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

But it is a 3.5inch hardrive. I do not have a PC to put this into.

[aido]

Do you have a laptop?

If so you could buy a caddy to mount the disk in and recover it that way - if you were to do that you'd need to pull it out of the box immediately though because the longer it's written to the less chance you have of recovering anything

[joysleep1]

Do you have a laptop?

If so you could buy a caddy to mount the disk in and recover it that way - if you were to do that you'd need to pull it out of the box immediately though because the longer it's written to the less chance you have of recovering anything

Oh man. Just seems like a headache. I wish there was a way to reverse what i did by keeping the HDD in the box. I feel like such an idiot.
I guess i know never to do that again.

[ccs]

I'd shut down the box and switch off the power asap.

There's a big difference between initialising and converting - someone who understands these things needs to advise.

Converting could simply require a fsck to put things right, but don't do anything until a real expert comes along.

[joysleep1]

I'd shut down the box and switch off the power asap.

There's a big difference between initialising and converting - someone who understands these things needs to advise.

Converting could simply require a fsck to put things right, but don't do anything until a real expert comes along.

Yh i know it was a mistake on my bit.

What will shutting the box down do now?
I am not going to bother recovering it, i have accepted that i messed up. Taking it out of the box and trying to recover it would just take ages. I do not even have a 3.5inch caddy thing anyway.

Thanks for your help guys.

[twol]

Also depend on what the E2 code really does.... converting can imply sticking the data somewhere while you modify the disk ...... but too often it means re-formating to the new format i.e erase and reformat