I did do a simple erase Harry, & yes I should have ejected the drives, I¡¯m just glad I¡¯m not a Pilot!
John
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On May 10, 2023, at 12:02 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer <hejb44@...> wrote:
?If you just did a simple erase it just erased the directory and can probably be restored (I don¡¯t know how) But if you did a secure erase which overwrites multiple 0s in every track of the drive then I believe all is lost.
I ALWAYS do a most secure erase (7 passes over the drive writing 0s) before I give get rid of a computer.
You probably should have ejected the external drives before reformatting.
Good luck John
On May 9, 2023, at 11:36 PM, John Robinson via groups.io <profilecovenant@...> wrote:
?I have an older Mac Pro, internally there are 4 drives, a 10 TB, 1 TB, and two 8 TB¡¯s.
I¡¯m going to sell the unit so I made sure all the internal drives were backed up to the external, then I started formatting the drive¡
Since all 8 were in a line down the side of the screen I accidentally erased an external drive and also had erased the internal.
I sure would like to retrieve the files, most are family photos and videos.
Do any of you know of a utility program that I can use to restore the drive? I know there are firms I can ship the drive to, I¡¯m guessing they are very expensive¡way back in DOS days I again didn¡¯t know what I was doing and I deleted the entire hard drive.
There was a guy in the Windows user group that came to my office and restored the entire drive¡that is what I need to do now.
I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
John
