

He said it had something to do with the quick formatting process changing the directory to a bunch or zeroes or ones so that my computer would think the drive had been wiped out but in actuality the data was supposed to still be there. So he took my HD home and did something to it to "retrieve" some of the files.


But then a friend asked me if I only quick formatted and hadn't tried to write anything new to the drive, and I said yes, this was the case. I thought I was formatting my new 3TB HD and it turns out I quick formatted my old HD - So I thought everything just went, PFFFFFF!!!! all gone. Well, as it turns out, I accidentally clicked on the incorrect HD icon and quick formatted the wrong HD.
