GENERAL Stupidly formatted external hard drive with xbox!!!

ball00

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So after a lot of stress with wife kids and life and not paying attention I was attempting to format an internal hdd to give to a friend. As I tried to transfer my data to a usb key I commited the noob error of choosing my external 1tb hard drive and not the usb key. Could give lengthy reasons and excuses but I'm just really stupid tonight.

Anyway it asked me to set up the drive as an xbox partition and I said yes. Horrified to see 32gb available afterwards instead of the 16gb that should have been there and realised I'd screwed up.

Anyone know any freeware or method to recover the data. The games I can put back from the originals (although that may take a long time to rerip a seven year collection) but I had pictures and videos of the kids on there as well as other personal stuff. If anyone was as stupid as me and managed to recover could they point me in a good direction to take. Preferably before my wife finds out.

Put this in the noob section, cause today I rejoin the noobs clearly!!!
 

gavin_darkglide

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The 32gb mu should be stored as files on the external hdd, and should not effect any of your games. i do not believe that the xbox will do anything to a usb drive as far as formatting, or deleting stuff when making a MU on usb, so I would plug it in to a computer and see what is on the drive.
 
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ball00

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The 32gb mu should be stored as files on the external hdd, and should not effect any of your games. i do not believe that the xbox will do anything to a usb drive as far as formatting, or deleting stuff when making a MU on usb, so I would plug it in to a computer and see what is on the drive.

Nothing doing shows as empty minus the 32gb. Trying to look for freeware recovery but that type of search is littered with adware/malware download manager bullshit.

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i use getdata back or Recuva got loads of things back in the past using thoses programs but theres loads out there
THX I'll check those out tomorrow gotta trust a bloke from my home city I guess