Help! Accidentally formatted hard disk with data on it (Macintosh)

[InfoGuy]

Do you do a quick format or a standard format? If the first, you probably just wiped the directory and have a reasonable chance of recovering your data. If the latter, you're probably f*d.

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Greenie

Get a PC

Naah, this was completely user error. Besides, I have a PC too, just never use it for anything except looking at how sites look on one of those things.

Originally Posted by Cleo

I've had somewhat decent results with Data Rescue II from ProSoft Engineering.

Thanks, Cleo, I'm going to download the demo of that one and give it a try to see what it says it can recover.

Originally Posted by InfoGuy

Do you do a quick format or a standard format? If the first, you probably just wiped the directory and have a reasonable chance of recovering your data. If the latter, you're probably f*d.

No idea which kind it was, but it only took about 2 seconds to make the second partition and remount the disk when I made the mistake so maybe I can still get it back.