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urgent question on HDD formating

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Odnetnin

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Hello,

I fucked up my portable HDD last night (this night) and am currently in the process of recovery - somehow my USB managed to power down during a safe remove and wiped off the root directory and I can no longer access it. The info's real valuable so I'm in the process of recovery.

PROBLEM. Too much data. My current PC can acquire/hold many 90 gigs but then I'm done. Since the drives on the Portable HDD is partitioned, can I safely format the recovered drive..

say Portable = F: + G:

F: recovered on PC HDDs C: + D:

format F:

copy files back to F: to free up space for C: + D:

MAIN POINT: data yet unrecovered on G: is safe


Will the format wipe the partition and make me lose all that data or not?
 
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