Un-quick format a drive?

[yorgle]

So, I'm apparently an idiot.

I have an Amiga 1000, with a DataFlyer 1000 SCSI interface.  Off of that, I have two disks, a 100 meg and a 50 meg quantum. I was just given a 500 meg IBM drive from a friend, and I thought I'd format it, then copy everything from the 100 and 50 onto it.

I removed the 50 (DH1), which was on the end of the SCSI chain, with termination, dropped in the IBM drive, with the same SCSI ID and proper termination. Booted up the Amiga on 1.3, fired up the DataFlyer Drive Prep tool, went through it's configuration to format the disk.  All of the parameters looked good, it showed the 500 meg's parameters. All seemed good.

Got through to the 'format it now' page, and it asked which name to use, i left it as "DH", i forgot how this all worked... it's been about 10 years since I ran the tool.

Here's where it all went bad.

It quick formatted a drive.  Then it said "Insert volume Work in drive 0" or similar wording.  It quick formatted my boot drive instead of the one it was working with.

Is there a tool, or a good procedure to unformat it, or at least to recover it.  As far as I can tell, just the table of contents, and perhaps a file or two have been destroyed.

The only backup I have of this system was one I made around 1994 or so... not very useful... and many of those disks are no longer around.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Matt_H]

DiskSalv can unformat. There may be other tools as well - PartitionWizard if you can hook it up to an OS4 machine.

[Azryl]

Disksalv from v3 or above should recover all your files. Undelete them

Az

[paul1981]

Disksalv from v3 or above should recover all your files. Undelete them

Az

Stating the obvious here...but don't write anything at all to the drive until you have recovered all of your files.

[yorgle]

Excellent. Thanks for the pointers!  I need to figure out some way to get the software over, and to boot a machine to 2.0 to make this work.  Is the pre 2.0 version of Disk Salv "good enough" or is it worth the effort for me to work out a 2.0 booting machine to use the latest version?

I have the A1000 with 1.3 kickstart floppy, and (somewhere, perhaps lost) 2.04 via skick
A500 with 1.3 kickstart ROM (keyboard missing a couple of keys)
flaky (maybe) A2000 with 2.0 kickstart rom, but no keyboard.

I'm working on making a keyboard adapter to plug my A1000 keyboard into the A2000, but I may just shift the 2.0 rom to the A500 and run it that way, if need be.

And yes, of course I have not touched the drive since the incident.  Nothing will write to it until i get access to the stuff there... and then it all gets copied off to the new drive... then the original will be reformatted, and re-stuffed with the original contents.