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- ninjasavant0
I did something similar a little while ago. Twice actually. Once trying to share a drive between a windows and mac machine, once on an opium bender. Anyway, here's what I know from experience.
First. What's done is done. Getting angry now will only cloud your judgement. Take a moment, take a breath, take a nap, just chill.
Second. Offsite data recovery will cost no less than $3000, I've looked into it, talked to people, and that's not guaranteed. Its the most reliable option, but for a price.
Third. Your best bet is to drop a few bucks on a data recovery program. I work for one of the largest software/hardware companies in the world and gave some developer friends of mine the drive to see if they could get in and extract the binary code being that they had done it before once. But it was no use. If you don't have the money, save up. It's your only option. There's no magic fix.
Fourth. There's a chance that your data is gone. Repeat step one and start making plans for what you are going to do from here. Its only stuff. I lost a lot of stuff the first time I crashed a drive, but I survived. Don't lose hope. Good luck.