There were 3 visible partitions from what I saw in Disk Management. One was a 55 FAT partition, one a 229gb main NTFS partition, and the last one was unnamed and roughly 3 gb.
My question, however, is, theoretically, whether or not the data is still on the drive even if the same partition was formatted multiple times?
Thanks for your help Eneles, I'm going to look in a local store for a HDD however given it's a faster process. Anything SATA should work right?
I was looking at this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1142294266836