1 TB WD black was wiped by inserting and removing. Is there any chance of a software recovery tool? The drive WAS the backup of a couple older drives I still have and that still function. There are a few things on there that were unique but nothing I can't get back. It would be handy to bring it back to life if possible. I just had a few different sample libraries all in one place that was more handy than the places they were originally spread about.

Drive recovery software is the land of despair for many and every scam in the software business knows it. Is there anything out there that might put this back together. Nothing has been written to the drive since it appears the think it's unformatted. Maybe a tool could find the old file system or something. I doubt anything actually got wiped, just one thing changed from 0 to 1 or something.

I'm really surprised by this. I've hot swapped drives many, many times without issue. This drive was fine this morning and I tried to check it out on this new EZ dock and bam. I can tell you there was no heavy handed movement. I inserted it and the drive didn't show up, a minute later I removed it. No activity of any kind by the drive (other than the motor spinning) or like the computer was searching. I rebooted and the drive shows up as New Volume. It previously was nearly full. Boo.

I appreciate any suggestions.