Don't try to format a partition of the usb - page 2.

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Quote from: e1ghtSpace on January 09, 2015, 05:58:25 AM

It formatted the whole drive?

What program did you use?
Diskpart?

I'm guessing Windows Explorer.

Do not ever click Yes to this dialog. Nothing good will come of it. Yes, it will blow away all other partitions on the disk. No, you don't get a warning.

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When you say formating, do you mean you tried to put a fresh file system on one partition and inadvertently messed up another partition your coins were on?

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It formatted the whole drive?

What program did you use?
Diskpart?

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Quote from: twister on January 09, 2015, 01:35:50 AM

Because it will format the whole drive. I learned this last night while I tried to do just that and I lost some alt-coin paperwallets.pdfs that I was planning to print out later, roughly around $10.

So learn from my mistake and I'll try to do the same.

$10 is not a very big amount to learn a good lesson, so you should consider yourself lucky.
You're lucky you didn't have a BTC wallet in there, just some alt-coins.

I usually keep a separate USB drive for storing my wallets and do not use it for anything else - they're not costly anyway.

If you have time and you're inclined to, there are some recovery softwares that let you recover data from formatted storage media. Just google.

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I say really goodluck, Imagine if you had of done this with a drive full of BTC

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Really bad luck. However, You should have kept your coin wallets in a USB device you used only for them (to avoid the need for partitioning/formatting the device). Also, You should consider to have an additional USB device to back-up the primary one who store your coins.
It's very sad you have to learn it the hard way.

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Because it will format the whole drive. I learned this last night while I tried to do just that and I lost some alt-coin paperwallets.pdfs that I was planning to print out later, roughly around $10.

So learn from my mistake and I'll try to do the same.

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