Recovering a partially formatted drive

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Author Message   John Dix Posted on Friday, Apr 12, 2002 - 20:58:    I mistakenly started to format a floppy with some files on it which I needed. When I used the Disk Editor in WinHex to open the drive, I got the following error: An error occurred when accessing drive A:. I was hoping to open it in binary format so that I could possibly recover something of what's left. Can I do this or is the diskette hopelessly lost?   John Dix Posted on Friday, Apr 12, 2002 - 21:06:    I should make a note that I kicked the disk out of the drive before it got to 2% done   Stefan Fleischmann (Admin) Posted on Friday, Apr 12, 2002 - 21:11:    You only started to format it, you didn't complete the procedure? In that case it is possible that WinHex cannot open the disk as a logical drive A: because this relies on Windows being able to access the drive. I recommend you open the floppy disk as a physical disk instead. If the disk was not physically damaged (but the logical file structure only), this should work. And better create an image or backup of the entire disk, so you won't lose more data if anything goes wrong during your recovery attempts.   John DIx Posted on Friday, Apr 12, 2002 - 22:05:    That did it. I opened it as physical and I am now able to access the diskette. Thanks Stefan! Once again YOU ARE THE MAN!   sue cammish Username: cammishs Registered: N/A Posted on Monday, May 24, 2010 - 22:35:    I recently bought a kodak Zi8 with a 8GB memory card and accidently formatted some of the photos is there any chance of retrieving them   Björn Ganster Username: admin4 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 11:28:    You may use the Davory demo to try and recover photos from your card. Try the "Recover by type" method first. If successful, the software will recover the first 200kB of each photograph. In that case, the full version of the software should be able to recover more complete photos, but please note that nobody can guarantee a full recovery of your data. Davory demo is available here: http://www.x-ways.net/davory/index-m.html Good luck!   John Singh Username: freshcrop Registered: N/A Posted on Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010 - 18:08:    thanks for this info   Donson Cube Username: donsonq Registered: N/A Posted on Sunday, Sep 5, 2010 - 4:43:    http://www.icare-recovery.com/howto/recover-data-floppy-disk.html Note to recover data: Do not write file after format to prevent data loss.   W. Spiegl Username: ws Registered: N/A Posted on Sunday, Sep 5, 2010 - 21:35:    Why do you advertise here? In case of doubt it is also possible to find free tools if you know how to handle Google, Bing or another search machine.