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Hello!

Just wanted to say photorec was a tremendous help. It recovered many, many files, albeit with no file structure. But that is okay given the situation. Thank you very much for the help and these tools. All the best!

Hello, recuperation.

In fact, I had gotten testdisk from my package manager, and did not even realise photorec came along with it. So I went to the website and downloaded testdisk again :D

Anyway, I have successfully created the backup .img file from the problematic hard drive, and used dd to ...

Alright. Thank you very much for the guidance so far. I'm currently copying the whole content of the formatted hard drive to an external hdd, and I'll start working from there to reduce possible further disruption. Will keep you posted. Thank you very much, again, for all the help (and the tools ...

The following assumes that you did not use any parameter of ext3.mkfs which makes the command overwriting every sector of the related disk.


I can confirm I did not use any other parameter.


You would need to run deep search as well to exclude! the possibility of recovering the NTFS file ...

Hello again. Sorry for the delay.

I don't quite remember what I did, so I'm trying to retrace the steps:

ran `testdisk`; selected the harddrive; at the partition type table menu I selected Intel, and the `hint` says `Hint: None partition table type has been detected.` And then I selected `Analyse ...

Hello! Thank you very much for the swift response.




Thu Jan 25 10:25:06 2024
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 5.15.146-1-MANJARO (#1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 5 16:20:43 UTC ...

Hello, everyone.

I am currently in mild panic.

I needed to add another partition to a single-partition NTFS hard-drive. After terrible judgement, I ran mkfs.exfat on it and, of course, 600gb worth of content disappeared.

There were, from what I can tell, no further writes in the hard-drive. I ran ...