Some numptie has formatted our SQL Server.

What are the odds of recovering it ?

Anyone know any handy "Unformat" utilities

 

I have a good program at home that I unformatted my drive after *accidentally* formatting it 4 times It managed to recover everything. Best to ensure nothing more gets written to the drive so you don't lose anything.

Drop me a mail and I'll sort you out a bit later if it helps ?

 

ahh , must be friday.

 

i used to have a dos program that would let you recover single files from a formatted hard disc, but you could only do one at a time and it had to fit on a floppy.

was a bit sh*te but OK if if you only needed a file or 2...

 

DJ - YHM

Thanks a million.

The guy in pc support has been sounding progressively more worried as I point out the slightly devestating affect of their actions !

 

DJ, could you email me the proggy or details about it to the address in my profile? Handy utility to have

Thanks

Steve

 

Easy recover profesional would probably do the trick.
Got me out of a few scrapes !

Richard

 

Which can be found here:

http://www.ontrack.com/software/

If not, time to send the disk off to Ontrack and wait for the wallet busting bill...

 

So what exactly does a full format do then if it doesnt' erase files and create a clean drive? Confused! I am thinking of it in video tape terms, and if you format a video tape there is no hope in hell of getting your prog back!

D

 

I can second DJ Dunk on that On track stuff, works a treat, even on a formatted drive

lol @ stevem

shunty

 

Ontrack are based in the same building as our company so I can confirm you will get a wallet busting bill. When one of our customers hard drives went t!ts up the final bill was over £2000....

I can get you a discount if it comes to that though!