human error - help?

[asopaque]

hi all,

 

I have two firewire drives hooked up to my Mac Server. I was preparing one of the drives to be a backup set, which, essentially 'initializes' the drive.

 

uggggh...to my total dismay, I selected the wrong drive, and followed through with the "are you sure you want to do this?" warning messages without double checking myself.

 

I didn't realize what i had done until i saw the access light blinking on the 'wrong' hard drive, and i stopped the execution about 15 seconds after it started.

 

This was on a 120 gig hard drive, which had about 60 or 70 gigs of valuable information on it.

 

Now, I DO REALIZE that i'm the stupid one here. However, does anyone have any suggestions of how to possibly recover the data that is on there?

 

I have tried using Norton's Unerase feature of Norton Utilities, but no luck. I am just hoping that there might be some way to salvage some of the data since i stopped the initialization procedure so quickly, but I'm not sure if I should get my hopes up.

 

any help is appreciated. thanks in advance.

 

rich atkinson

[natew]

Hi

 

I replied to your other post but I'll put it here too.

 

You need a drive recovery service as Dantz TS won't be able to help.

 

Also take a look at the "backup to hard disk" tutorial. It will save you this kind of grief in the future.

http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27501

 

Nate