Data Recovery (formatted NTSC drive)

[Plaz]

Why would this be? And if it is missing, then why does the hard drive reflect that that space is still used?

Possible the tool you used didn't recognize all the different file types you had saved so didn't know how to properly recover them. You may have to use more than one tool and do separate passes with each to pick up all the different types.

Here's a free one I ran across that might be worth a try.
Though it doesn't know native Amiga files, it may do well on most everything else and does say it has unformat ability.
 http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Have a look at this review first too.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224577/6_data_recovery_tools_for_SD_cards_USB_drives_and_more?taxonomyId=150&pageNumber=2

Good luck.

Plaz

[Plaz]

Spinrite added to my list of programs to try.

I've only used spinrite on hard drives, never a usb stick. Not sure it works on those.  It's commercial and made to recover from data loss due to physical problems like bad sectors, not so much undeleting or unformatting. I agree though, it is one of the best at what is does. If spinrite can't recover your data from a bad drive, I think the only option left is to ship your hardware to a place like ontrack.

Plaz