Formatted kindle by mistake

[BobH]

Ok, I have done a right silly thing in mistakenly formatted my kindle was I charging up on my pc. I also had a USB drive which I was meant to format, but somehow the dropdown selection of the program I used was on the wrong item!

I only found out what had happened when I opened my kindle and it was blank! Doh!

Anyway, does anyone know what the directory structure is in them?

I think mine is the 2nd version after the one which came out with a built in keyboard. Mine does not have a keyboard, and is the Amazon kindle.

[Tim+]

Suspect it will need more than that. I'd contact Amazon.

Tim

[nemo]

If your PC can still 'see' the Kindle as a USB disk drive, you might be able to run an undelete-type utility on the PC to restore some or all of the files.

[Bob Eager]

Surely, if you've added all of the books either as Amazon purchases, or emailing them to the Kindle via Amazon, then all you have to do is a factory reset followed by re-downloading from Amazon?

Any directly added books - presumably you have copies of those.

[fred]

In article , BobH writes

It sounds rather involved:

With second hand ones going from around 40quid, it may be easier to replace:

Good luck!

[Brian Gaff]

Besides, surely Amazon would know what you had and can put it all back. Brian

[BobH]

There is no factory reset button as my kindle is this one Amazon Kindle Wi-Fi 2011, B

I am not worried about the books etc, it is the folder structure I want. Then hopefully copy the books back to the documents folder, but currently they are not seen in the said folder.

[BobH]

I have tried Easeus data recovery, which says it found 7 files, but on clicking the 'Next' button, no files were found.

Also tried iCare, same thing Also tried Yodot, it cant connect to my kindle so no joy there. Also tried 7-Data Recovery, again no files found.

Any others I might try which can deal with kindle files and folders?

[Andy Burns]

Is this any use?

[BobH]

Yes it does look rather involved, for just restoring or creating the folders etc.

This is mine: Amazon Kindle Wi-Fi 2011, B

I am not worried about the books etc, it is the folder structure I want. Then hopefully copy the books back to the documents folder, but currently they are not seen in the said folder.

[BobH]

Brilliant, thanks. I would never had known that was the way to do it!

Just finished setting up my Amazon account and put the last book I was reading back on.

[stuart noble]

I love a happy ending :-)

[fred]

So there is a reserved block for recovery then, useful to know.

I really did think you were stuffed, glad you're sorted.