How can I unformat?

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How can I unformat?

By mistake I formatted my harddisk. I immediately realized what I had done and have not touched the disk afterwards.

It was the OSX tiger system disk on my Powermac G4 and I formatted it using an MacOS 9 disk when I was trying to format a powerbook, which I had connected in target disk mode.

I have an external Tiger disk, which is up and running, but most of my valuable data files are on the lost disk.

Is there a way to recover my lost files?

I tried he StellarPhoenix. app but it reportrs serious problems and it can not do the job.

PPC G4 MP 450 MHz 384 MB Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Posted on Apr 29, 2007 11:41 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 29, 2007 11:53 AM in response to Bertil Norstedt

Hello! If you did an erase with the "zero all data" you're sunk for sure. DATARESCUE is your only hope short of an EXPENSIVE trip to a company that specializes in such retrieval. Tom

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Answer 2

Apr 30, 2007 1:45 AM in response to Bertil Norstedt

Thank you for your quick reply!

I checked in the apple.com list of possible programs and found
boomerang, which I have had running this night and it seems to
deliver good results. If it fails I will try datarescue afterwards.

Actually it is my girlfriends computer and her data,
so I sincerely hope our relationship can be restored after this incident,

Regards / Bertil

PPC G4 MP 450 MHz 384 MB Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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