Uninstalling 'rescue media' from my passport drive

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Hi:

I have a 250gb My Passport external drive (#WXE408lr5654). I was intending to do a backup from my IBM thinkpad, but by mistake selected “create rescue media”, instead of the backup utility. Yikes! Now my thinkpad only sees the drive "IBM_USB(Z:).All the files (other backed up files)  on the external drive seem gone (or at least I can’t see them from my thinkpad). Any ideas on how I should precede, if it’s possible to restore the drive to it’s old condition with the old files?

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Hello,

I don’t believe it will be possible to restore the drive to the original condition without loosing the files, however you can try to use photorec which is a free data recovery software. 

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Hi:

Thanx. That sounds like the way to go. The files on the Passport are not critical, so if everything on it is toast it will not be too bad. I will give your suggestion a go in a couple of days and post how it turned out.

thanx,

Gene