Accidentally reformatted MyBook Studio II

I didn’t redline that when you use the WD Drive Manager on a Mac that it would reconfigure all WD RAID units on the chain. I bought a new 2TB unit and managed to erase" the first unit. Who can recommend good Mac data recovery software so I can recover.

MiniTool, Disk Drill, DiskWarrior, Stellar Phoenix.

MiniTool is free.

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Gratzi. Prego. Will report in here on my progress. Will order hard drive to copy everything off of the original drive then download the recovery software. Thanks

Use freeware for recovering photos, pictures, videos, Word documents, Excel, PDF and other files from formatted http://formatdriverecovery.com/

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Thanks. I’ll look into it.

breann wrote:
Use freeware for recovering photos, pictures, videos, Word documents, Excel, PDF and other files from formatted http://formatdriverecovery.com/

That program doesn’t support HFS+ so it’s useless for Mac.

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Then I guessing don’t need to look into that avenue. I believe you said that minitool was free. I’d prefer to use a recovery tool that has either vendor support or a strong community of users for questions in the event I get stuck. Thanks Mr/Ms T.P.Matrix

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ThePizzaMatrix,

I ran a recovery scan in DiskDrill and it only found 165GB out of 1.8TB on the reformatted volume (of a RAID-1 mirrored pair of 2TB drives in a MyBook Studio II formatted as HFS+).

Is there a diagnostic or different Recover routine I need to run in order to reveal/recover the original file structure?

Thanks

jvb723 wrote:

ThePizzaMatrix,

 

I ran a recovery scan in DiskDrill and it only found 165GB out of 1.8TB on the reformatted volume (of a RAID-1 mirrored pair of 2TB drives in a MyBook Studio II formatted as HFS+).

 

Is there a diagnostic or different Recover routine I need to run in order to reveal/recover the original file structure?

 

Thanks

I don’t think so without going pro. A RAID rebuild tends to zero out drives making recovery very hard.

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TPM,

That’s what I thought but look at this excerpt from my query to WD support:

jvb723: My understanding of performing a raid 1 reformatting is that all data sectors are zeroed out. Wouldn’t that prevent the former data from being retrieved?

WD support: In regards to your inquiry, the kind of zeroing done when configuring RAID’s only marks the surfaces of the drive sectors there for that information can be recovered with suitable data recovery software. See below the list of popular data recovery software’s which might be useful to you.

So based on this, I am pursuing the disc recovery. If Disk Drill does not show me everything, I’m going to buy DiskWarrior and give it a go. I’ve owned and used DW years ago so I have a lot of faith in their software.

What’s your take on the info above? Will I be lucky just to retrieve the files without a directory structure.

thanks, jvb723

jvb723 wrote:

TPM,

 

That’s what I thought but look at this excerpt from my query to WD support:

 

jvb723: My understanding of performing a raid 1 reformatting is that all data sectors are zeroed out. Wouldn’t that prevent the former data from being retrieved?

 

WD support: In regards to your inquiry, the kind of zeroing done when configuring RAID’s only marks the surfaces of the drive sectors there for that information can be recovered with suitable data recovery software. See below the list of popular data recovery software’s which might be useful to you.

 

So based on this, I am pursuing the disc recovery. If Disk Drill does not show me everything, I’m going to buy DiskWarrior and give it a go. I’ve owned and used DW years ago so I have a lot of faith in their software.

 

What’s your take on the info above? Will I be lucky just to retrieve the files without a directory structure.

 

thanks, jvb723

 

That looks like sugar-coating to me.

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point taken. thanks

You may follow this guide which helped me before: Western Digital hard drive data recovery

Hope this helps.