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thank you for the decisive responses. Not what i wanted to hear, but saved me wasting time on something fruitless.

>Has your drive been formated with that particular command before?
Thanks, Yes

>Your mkfs command zeroed out the inode tables.

Is there a backup somewhere on the drive? or some method to recreate it?

I guess I will have to give Photorec a try.

I have a drive with one single partition. I deleted it, recreated it, and formatted it. All the same geometry, the whole disk.

Here is what i have done:
1 formatted the partition with "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1"
2 mounted it
3 created one dir in it's root called "data/"
4 unmounted it, discovered my ...