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

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

On May 10, 2023, at 8:15 AM, Beth Phillips <beth.phillips@...> wrote:

John,

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Here is an article on recovering erased files. Towards the bottom they list some programs that may be able to help your recovery efforts.

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Good luck, I know that sinking feeling, been there, done that.

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Beth

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