Not Too Expensive/Free App for Data Recovery?

So long story short, stupid me partitioned my seagate external hard drive so I can use it on my mac and pc, but without saving all of the files first.

Now here I am crapping my pants doing everything I can because I had some important documents on my external hard drive and I need to recover them ASAP.

Any recommendations?

Sorry, but good data recovery software is not free nor is it "not too expensive". How much is your data worth to you?

Data Rescue 4

Nothing is cheap in this arena. DataRescue 4 is pretty good, but I don't know how well it works on a drive that has been partitioned and formatted like you say you have done.

Recommendations? How about backups? Too late for now, but it's a good idea.

chscag said:

Sorry, but good data recovery software is not free nor is it "not too expensive". How much is your data worth to you?

Data Rescue 4

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IT's mostly filled with family pictures and videos from our vacation these past months

I forgot to mention that you can download a trial version of Data Rescue 4 to test with to see if it can recover the data you lost.

chscag said:

I forgot to mention that you can download a trial version of Data Rescue 4 to test with to see if it can recover the data you lost.

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Well no need for the program I guess. I forgot I import all my pictures through iPhoto and luckily iPhoto has them!

Guess only things I lost were some videos I recorded through my iPhone and all that stuff. Oh well better than nothing

Guess only things I lost were some videos I recorded through my iPhone and all that stuff. Oh well better than nothing

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If you haven't reset your iPhone, the videos are still there but perhaps hidden or in a deleted status. You may be able to recover them and export them to your Mac by using iExplorer.

chscag said:

If you haven't reset your iPhone, the videos are still there but perhaps hidden or in a deleted status. You may be able to recover them and export them to your Mac by using iExplorer.

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I wish I could, but the pictures and videos were accumulated from the iPhone 4- current iPhone and I don't have access to my older phones anymore. Thanks though