Hard Drive Issues

This week I got a new hard drive to accommodate the edit I was doing my drama film in the narrative strand of the project and so I needed to format it to exFat in order for it to work on both Mac computers and PC's. Unfortunately I had my old hard drive still plugged in when I chose to format the new one, and I accidentally formatted both the old and the new hard drives at the same time. This meant that all 900+gb of work I had on the old drive was instantly wiped, including all my post production work from this semester. I attempted to recover my files by downloading software that would help me do this but after 2 days of reading and recovering the files, it only fully recovered around 1000 files most of which were small and useless hidden files, and partly recovered 3000 more out of a possible 140,000+ that were present on the drive.

Attempting to recover lost files.

This meant that I was very unlikely to have recovered any important or useful files that would help me get back on track with the work I was half way through on Out of Date. It also means that I have lost both my Media Composer project files for The Movement and Night Journey, meaning that I cannot re-edit them at all and will have to submit the fine cuts we presented in class over the past 2 months.
Although this has been a major set back for me as I have also lost all my screenshots of the assembly and rough cut of the Out of Date project, as well as any others from seminars and past projects, I have arranged to meet with the tutor Chris to see if there is any way we can recover these files and get the ball rolling again so I don't have too much of a massive workload to complete by the end of the semester. As the formatting of the hard drive was completely my fault, I will be staying in university over the Easter holiday to catch up on my lost work so I can still submit professional standard films and obtain a good mark.