Is there any way to unformat an external hard drive?

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I accidentally formatted my external WD Elements hard disk.Is there any software to undo it.Or any way to just recover the photos in it.

It depends on how you formatted it in the first place. Please tell us more about that. The exact procedure you followed. — solsTiCe, Jul 12 '15 at 14:00
I used winsub to create a bootable windows from ubuntu, but accidentally used my external instead and it wiped out all my data on it. — Rahul Nair, Jul 12 '15 at 14:01
It was a quick format,and I dont know if it helps but i cancelled it immediately though. — Rahul Nair, Jul 12 '15 at 14:16
possible duplicate of [How to recover a deleted NTFS partition with data](http://askubuntu.com/questions/171163/how-to-recover-a-deleted-ntfs-partition-with-data) — Parto, Jul 12 '15 at 20:00
Another one: http://askubuntu.com/questions/245987/how-can-i-recover-my-data-after-replacing-windows-with-ubuntu — Parto, Jul 12 '15 at 20:00

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 12 '15 at 14:05

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Take a look at testdisk. It should recover most of the data if the drive is formatted "quickly".

answered Jul 12 '15 at 14:05

aastefanov

Its not detecting my hard disk "No hard disk found.You need to be root to use TestDisk" – Rahul Nair Jul 12 '15 at 14:15
run it as root with `sudo testdisk` – aastefanov Jul 12 '15 at 14:27

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