Hi All ! First post here in a while, need some help. I accidently formatted a drive that contained all my poser pz3 and pzz files. I have tried several different recovery softwares with varying levels of failure. Has anyone successfully restored deleted poser files, and what software did you use. Thanks John

Unfortunately, if you have tried different recovery software without success, I doubt that you will be able to salvage anything usable. Attempting to use the drive will only increase the likelihood of overwriting those sectors the previous files once occupied. It's a matter of how quickly you can implement a recovery app without compromising the data.

What operating system are you using?

Going into the control panel and clicking on Restore should get you there. You can restore the computer to the point before you did the formatting. If you are on Windows. If you are on a MAC, I can't help you.

rokket posted at 6:23AM Sat, 16 September 2017 - #4314218

What operating system are you using?

Going into the control panel and clicking on Restore should get you there. You can restore the computer to the point before you did the formatting. If you are on Windows. If you are on a MAC, I can't help you.

It's windows 10. The drive in question is not a system drive but a secondary drive that all my files were stored on.

Oh. I don't know if anything can be done with that. You are referring to an external hard drive, I take it?

Maybe taking it to Best Buy and see if the Geek Squad can do anything for you.

Some background The computer had 3 drives in it, a boot drive and 2 storage drives. Last week I replaced the boot drive with an ssd and ghosted the boot drive on the ssd and then formatted what I thought was the old boot drive, it wasn't. :-( to my horror it was one of the 2 storage drives There was also music and video files on there in addition to the poser files Ultimately nothing I can't live without, just kicking myself for my stupidity.

For what it's worth I managed to recover some pz3 files (going back to 2015 when I bought the present Mac) using TechToolPro9. Previous attempts with File Salvage failed because though it could recover both pz3 files and pmd files (which I no longer use) it didn't match them up; just numbered them - which in most cases meant th pz3s were no use. TechTool recovered the pz3 files with their original names. I have yet to see what it can do if I ask for pmd files as well ... There might be something out there like TechTool suitable for Windows machines.

https://www.easeus.com/resource/drive/external-hard-drive.htm

"Free external hard drive data recovery software can help recover data from all external hard drive with all kinds of problems. For example, easily recover data from external hard drive that is formatted, erased, dead, broken or not detected. If external hard drive recovery software failed, continue external hard disk recovery by using command prompt."

It mentions formatting, so this might be what you are looking for. Google is your friend!

Already tried it. of the files It did find 99% were corrupt Easeus was the only one that recognized the pzz files.. also tried stellar phoenix and recuva with the same results.

Well, then maybe take solace in the fact that you didn't lose your runtime. I almost did that. But luckily for me I had an image file of the drive and was able to get it back. I am at a loss for your problem, I'm sorry.

Each time you attempt to access and manipulate the drive you begin to overwrite those sectors which once contained data. File fragments become completely dissociated and are eventually lost as the drive assimilates old disk regions for fresh information. It's worst if you have a fairly fragmented drive before reformatting. Yes, you can recover something but it would be too damaged and corrupted for practical use.

Have you tried UFS Explorer Recovery software? Used it with success a while back on an old failed 'My Book' hard drive.

http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_stdr.php

Best of Luck, Rªnce