Can I recover my old files from the drive or are they lost forever? If recoverable how? And how do I reformat? Sorry of thes are newbie questions, I’m desperate as some family videos were on that drive. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me!
i’ve successfully recovered data from a fully formatted hard drive 
it was years ago, but i used GetDataBack for NTFS, and you’ll need another hard drive to recover the data to,and from memory, i think it took about 8~10 Hours to recover the data.
1st advice is don’t write any data to the drive (otherwise, it will reduce your chances of recovering the data)
gOOgle … Data Recovery Software for more info and how to’s
(PS. next time, have a backup of your important data)
