i made a mistake formatting my hard drive....is there a chance to get the files back?

yep, just get unerase from norton utilities, one of the dos tools, that should do it. There are probably many other ways to do it, but I have used this one personally and it works great.

thanks very mucch for yoour quick help :-))

Unformatting a drive which was formatted by mistake with Norton Utility: Do not try Unerase or anything else on the drive. Turn off your computer: Case 1: Internal drives or A:/ drive, reboot your computer with Norton Rescue disk #1. Then follow the instruction on your screen for Unformat Menu. Case 2: you formatted by mistake an external drive, like a SCSI Castlewood Orb or an Iomega Jazz or Zip drive. In that case you will have to use the Copy Disk Command to copy the original Norton Rescue disk. Delete the help files (not enough room on the diskette) Then you will have to copy onto that diskette the Files aspi8dos.sys and aspidisk.sys, they are the SCSI DOS drivers which can be found either in your Adaptec DOS software or (may be) in your Windows 9X CD-ROM. Edit your config.sys file by adding the two following lines: Device=aspi8.sys Device=aspidisk.sys Reboot your computer, follow the instruction for Unformat, et voilà! Please note that the new version of System Works is a bootable CD-ROM (if your BIOS supports CD-ROM boot.) It will perform identically for internal EIDE drives. I have no idea as to how to make a bootable CD-ROM with the above mentioned changes for SCSI drives, still have to use a Diskette. By the way I believe that this is one of Norton Utilities best-kept secrets!

i have the same problem too. but i don't have norton emergency disk. can anyone send me the unformat.exe file to emailvo@rocketmail.com thanks.

I have been looking for the unistall program for a while any help on where to find it would be great

I mistakenly formatted a FAT32 Hard drive. Can someone help me get back the data. Thanks