undo formatting?

[honeypie246]

I have formatted the hard drive on my dvd player by mistake, can I undo this and get my recordings back?

[Blencogo · Accepted solution]

If you have formatted the drive then you have lost all the data permanently.

If you had just deleted the data, it may have been possible to retrieve data as long as it hasn't been overwritten but formatting completely destroys the data.

[honeypie246]

Thank you so much for your help, I have formatted the hard drive so I will just have to start again