[LucidRevenants]

Hey,

I recently had to wipe my computer. I had a power surge that crashed my computer, and upon reboot, was getting the NTLDR is missing error, and despite much effort, the only option was to start from scratch. I run a system where the OS is on my IDE drive, and then I have 2 SATAs as secondary storage drives. When I installed windows, it detected the drives physically as being there in my BIOS, but not in Windows for any practical purpose. I did a format on both of the SATAs, hoping that I would be able to recover the information once my computer read the drives.

I have ran the Complete Format Recovery all the way through, and it looks like most of the information is there, although the structure isn't quite how I organized it, and some files seem to be randomly shuffled and scattered around. No previews were available, but I saved to computer anyway to see what would happen. As feared, ALL of my files (despite having the right names and sizes) are giving errors when I try to open them (image, media, archive, etc). I tried to running the Complete File Recovery as well, and so far I can't preview images there either.

I tried running further file repair software on the files, a .PDF for example, and was getting the message that there was no information to repair.

I know it's a long shot, but do you have ANY suggestions or ideas as to why every single file would be corrupt after a simple format? And if there's anything I can do about it? Or should I just throw in the towel and start mourning the lost data...

Thanks in advance.