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by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 23:48
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

ok, sorry i am missing what you are saying. I do not have a lot of experience using these types of programs but like to learn. i am trying and do appreciate your help. One last question and i will leave it be. Would it help to delete the FAT32 partition and then run Testdisk?
by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 23:08
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

Hey recuperation

ok so that is not so good. Any advice on next step? Is there a way to put the contents as is on another hard drive and work on it? can i fix the mismatch issue and use Testdisk? What do you recommend?

How would you approach this if you were not as smart and experienced as you are ...
by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 20:21
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

hey recuperation

so EaseUS does show the files as being recoverable. just trying to learn and not spend a lot of money. I just cant seem to get Testdisk to work properly...I will continue to work on this and if you have any more suggestions, w would really appreciate it.

thank you for all of your ...
by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 19:19
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

and i saw this report. I am not sure but it doesn't look good to me. Can i move everything as it is somewhere else and work on it there? Geeezzzzzz, going from bad to worse?



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EDIT !

Here is the error log

by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 19:12
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

hi recuperation

is this the report you are talking about? I used GSmartControl. Is there a better way? Sorry i am sure this is frustrating for you....

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There are 52 ATA errors...

so given my situation is there anything else i can do to try to get Testdisk to work? and is ...
by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 15:44
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

Hello recuperation

EDIT: Stand by. I continued and it has listed a bunch of deleted files. I am trying to figure what to do next. Will read the step by step guide....just being over cautious about hitting enter... :roll:

EDIT 2: No recovered data yet. So so i do a deeper search or do i have to ...
by O5CARMAN
30 Jun 2022, 12:11
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

recuperation, thank you so much for taking the time to list the important information when going to forums for help. I really appreciate it. I will provide all I can....

1. OS
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Ver. 10.0.19044 Build 19044

2.
Testdisk 7.2

3.
The drive is used as a backup, Connected to ...
by O5CARMAN
29 Jun 2022, 14:43
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

Hello

I am not familiar with Testdisk, am stressing a little and would really appreciate any guidance. I resized the progress window and now my view of the current progress is limited. Could someone please advise if this is still OK or if I need to start over. I can scroll up to the original status ...
by O5CARMAN
29 Jun 2022, 11:12
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

Hello

I have been running Testdisk for about 12 hours now. I understand it is a long process but I do not know what the messages mean. I have attached a screen shot of the current readout. Please let me know what other information i can provide to help try to recover my data.


EDIT: Apologies if ...
by O5CARMAN
28 Jun 2022, 23:07
Forum: File recovery
Topic: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it
Replies: 16
Views: 16716

Re: flashed windows media creation tool to external hard drive and wiped it

Gotcha. Thank you for the reply and the info. First time using one of these forums so not sure what all is necessary. Will get the required info together and try again.