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GetDataBackPro was the program. Works like a charm.

I dont want to erase the data but to restore the NTFS partition. I dont need it anymore but I am nevertheless curious.

The partition is not lost which most of the tutorials are about but like I said reformated to HFS+

Thank you for your reply. I have to admit that I did not fully understand your answer. But I just found a program which seems to work like a charm. If I may, I could post the name of the product. It seems to successfully recover filenames and folders.

But for educational purposes: Is it possible ...

I have a 1TB HDD with 3 partitions. The first partition was formatted to NTFS. Accidentally I hit format on the wrong partition so I ended up formatting this NTFS partition to HFS+ on a Mac. I bought a SSD and made a copy with 'dd' of the whole drive to an image file.

I tried photorec and a couple ...