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Okay, well given that it was an SSD using trim, and that scrolling thru the hex showed a pretty solid all zeroes which didn't flicker to any other characters at all, it's pretty safe to say that SSD is a goner.

There still seems to be some confusion:
- Formatting is not part of any recovery ...

UPDATE: I opened in R-Studio's Hexeditor to scan visually. I think it is very likely the data was zeroed out somehow :(. Can't imagine how, unless somehow trim does apply to unallocated space with no file sys, or there was some flash of current that just wiped it all when WSS tried what it did. I ...

Thanks so much, to clarify:
-"clean" was only used on the factory-fresh disk prior to originally loading it with my data. The wipe happened soley due to WSS. I included the clean as potentially relevant only as it might mean the first partition map I'd made after "clean" was stored in the very first ...

UPDATE 3-- The disk was exFAT GPT, before being corrupted. But I'm still getting the error: "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged." However I read that my previous partition info. should be stored in multiple places around the disk, to prevent what I described below, and allow me to ...

Well, okay this is what I got again after Deeper Search:
What can I do now?

Okay thanks, running Deeper Search now. Will post results...

This is what I get when I hit "Load backup":
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However I hesitate to do this bc I can't tell if that's the backup partition table of the old proper format, or if it's a backup of the new Unallocated space, for which "restoring" it would just mean restoring the current unallocated state ...

I do not need to recover Storage Spaces. I need to recover regular exFAT disks that are now "Unallocated" by mistake.

(The reason for that being to a Storage Spaces glitch, should not be relevant to this, just that it was made them "Unallocated" by mistake.)

This was a very quick moment and the ...

Hi All,
Thanks so much for this resource. In a lot of pain here, decades of work just wiped last night by a glitch in Windows Storage Spaces. Two drives (main + backup), just wiped to "Unallocated" last night by Windows Storage Spaces trying to add them (against my wishes) to my other pre-existing ...