My BIL sent me a hard drive that he said he erased thinking that he had erased another one. I mounted the HDD and looked at Properties and it shows the entire file is available. He tells me that he did not reformat it, only selected the entire drive and clicked Delete. I won't repeat what he told me he said immediately afterward. He lives in Florida and I've been told that Rudi heard it.
Are there any tools that one might use to try to recover the data? I've never done this before, but I seem to recall reading that a Delete command wipes out the FAT/NTFS entries. I think these are kept in the MBR. I have exhausted my knowledge and revealed my ignorance and misunderstandings in those 2 sentences.
If anyone can help, please . . .
