Yes you would have to open the partition before formatting. If a partition is removed with the information you want to recover then the data is lost. There is no way to recover formatted data unless the system was backed up.
I am having the same problem with my maxtor 20.0 gb hard-drive i to have opened the drive and don't believe that a clean room is needed. A hard drive is not much different than a cd-rom.
If a drive has been formatted then all of the information on the partition is gone. If the drive was set up with multiple partitions then there is a possibility to recover some data.
I have a 20.0 gb maxtor 5400rpm hard-drive. When I boot my computer it makes several clicking noises then stops. I removed the hard-drive from my computer and placed it as a slave in a different work-station and same thing occured. I purchased a new maxtor 20.0 gb 7200 rpm hard-drive and was...
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