Hello all,

Having a bit of an issue.. I was replacing a harddrive on a HP desktop to START with a fresh OS load. Never thought to disconnect the USB drive that connected. Well it turned out the harddrive I put in the computer was BAD.. So when I FIRED up the HP restore it chose the USB drive to use.
It was starting to format the drive when I realized what was going on. It had to be a few seconds into the format that I unplugged the drive. Well long story short the USB drive doesn't read. I have used countless programs to try and recover it. It's mainly music on the drive and I did recover it but all the files have been renamed to generic numbers. The last program I used was testdisk to try and recovery/create a new partition so I can access the drive to copy the files over. But that did not work too well. Instead of the drive saying 'not formatted. Format now?', it's opens to a blank drive.

Any ideas? All that is needed is the music. Just want to copy it over and format the USB drive.

Thanks for the help,

SteveHave you TRIED recuva?
http://www.recuva.com/Just downloaded it.. RUNNING the deep scan. Do you happen to know if it keeps file names it recovers??

Thanks for the suggestion.