My friend has a problem with her computer.
She knows nothing about them, but she's trying to learn. So, in the mean time she has this idiot she knows doing all the routine stuff.
Anyway, he was dickering around and managed to quick format an 80GB drive with all her personal stuff on it. Once he realized what was happening he killed the power.
Now, I know the stuff is still there. Recovery software I've run on it sees all the "lost" files.
I know that it was a quick format, which my understanding leads me to believe that only the File Allocation Table (It was a FAT32 job) is erased. If I'm right, is there a way to just restore the FAT table and fix everything?
If it isn't possible, what are my other options? Recovering the files is possible, but I imagine it's going to be a very time consuming job and with holidays coming up, well, madness abounds
Any help is appreciated and comments are always welcome
I've exhausted my Google options, so I figured if anybody could help it's you guys