Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 500 GB SATA Hard Drive "stitch files together" Questions

files now is it possible? It depends on how long the FORMAT took -- if it just was a few seconds, then what happened was a 'empty' table-of-contents was written, to make the drive appear to be 'empty'

..."pages" in the volume are still stored on the drive. Search online for "File Scavenger" type of software, which linearly reads through the volume, and tries to "stitch" together the blocks into

...Look online for information about "File Scavenger" type of utility programs, that can read through the disk, sector by sector, and try to "stitch" together the sectors, to reconstruct your

block-by-block, and may possibly be able to "stitch" blocks together, to recreate your files. The device probably has a one-year warranty. Eventually, exercise the warranty to get it repaired/replaced

through the entire volume, chunk-by-chunk, to see if _any_ of the files can be read, and if those chunks can be "stitched" together to reassemble your files. Or, spend $9 to buy a replacement 2GB unit

...stitch" together the pieces, in order to "recover" your files. I would suggest a professional data recovery company such as TechRx, Inc. The Western Digital (anything) is sensitive to power ...

look online for "file recovery" utilities -- programs that will read through all the blocks of data on the disk, and try to "stitch" together all the files, without using the "damaged" file-directory

stitch-and-sew" together sectors into files, so that you can "recover" files, and copy them to your 'C:' drive. Yes, it sucks that your warranty has expired. Does your credit-card company "double" the

...are still valid. Look online for a "file recovery" or "file scavenger" program, which reads through the disk-drive, block-by-block, trying to "stitch" the blocks together, to reconstruct your

...having to format it? There do exist "file scavenger" utilities, that are designed to read through the disk, block-by-block, and to try to "stitch" together the fragments -- Google-search for