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

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by cd34

time machine has now saved me twice.

Time Machine has saved me so many times I've lost count. Just last week I spent a several hours rendering a movie. Then when I started the next render I accidentally overwrote it with the next render. Luckily Time Machine had already backed it up and it just took a few minutes to restore it.