Accidentally formatted My Book 1Tb - need to restore

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Had accidentally formatted my 1Tb My Book drive.

Basically need to restore the partition table. Don’t remember the sizes of partitions.

Think it was 250Gb, 250Gb, 250Gb, remainder.

WD P/N: WD10000H1U-00

Have tried many utils and given up (almost) a while ago.

Partitions need to be recreated exactly to decrypt data.

Please guide and ask questions.

WinXP, Partition Magic8

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This will be a trial an error kind of job for you until you find the right partition size

otherwise you’ll need another data recovery program

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Few clarifications:

  • this had happened not yesterday, some time ago

  • did some trial and error, no success - that’s why decided to ask advice here

  • formatted using HP USB Disk storage format tool, if that makes a difference

When I bought a drive to clone My Book it was from different manufacturer.  When cloning I realized the target drive was “smaller” than source.  Now, if I were to buy another My Book how can I be sure the actual drive inside is the same as I have?  Heard WD uses different drives in their external enclosures.

All help is appreciated.

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Looking at Elements drive now.

WD Elements WDBPCK0010-NESN 1TB Portable USB 3.0

What are the chances the drive inside is same/different from the one I have??