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by mi5ke
17 Dec 2019, 00:49
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: First 32GB of partition accidentally overwritten, recoverable?
Replies: 3
Views: 1617

Re: First 32GB of partition accidentally overwritten, recoverable?

Oh - just as I was typing the last message, it finally stopped! Hooorrrrraaayy!

Thanks,

Mike
by mi5ke
16 Dec 2019, 21:27
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: First 32GB of partition accidentally overwritten, recoverable?
Replies: 3
Views: 1617

Re: First 32GB of partition accidentally overwritten, recoverable?

Thanks - currently it is running a QPhotoRec, which is working, but has been running for nearly a week now. It is still finding files, but seem to be repeatedly reading the same sectors, over and over, stuck between 78% and 82% done, again and again.

Should I just leave it to finish?

Thanks again!
by mi5ke
12 Dec 2019, 12:50
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: First 32GB of partition accidentally overwritten, recoverable?
Replies: 3
Views: 1617

First 32GB of partition accidentally overwritten, recoverable?

Hi,

I have an external USB disk which had one big 500GB partition on it.

By accident, an unrelated installation program wrote a new 32GB partition over the initial portion of the original partition.

So now I have a 32GB partition, and the rest shows as "Unallocated" in Windows Disk Management.

I ...