I believe I figured out what happened. The wrong selection occurred and it turned into a bootable drive. From my understanding the data isn't recoverable when this occurs.
Thanks for your time, you can close out the thread.
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- 26 Oct 2025, 08:55
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: USB Flash Drive Data Was Overwritten
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- 19 Oct 2025, 20:37
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: USB Flash Drive Data Was Overwritten
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Re: USB Flash Drive Data Was Overwritten
The Flash Drive is 15GB. The important data probably took up less than 200MB, the text files were barely anything at all. What was added to it was only 500MB, so there was plenty of room on it.
I tried using 3 different recovery software options and they did recover old deleted things that I didn ...
I tried using 3 different recovery software options and they did recover old deleted things that I didn ...
- 15 Oct 2025, 17:43
- Forum: File recovery
- Topic: USB Flash Drive Data Was Overwritten
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USB Flash Drive Data Was Overwritten
I'm trying to resolve a major issue and hope that I can do so. A family member grabbed the wrong USB flash drive and they downloaded Windows 10 ISO to it. It's a Sandisk 15GB flash drive and there was tons of room on it, but it seems like it just overwrote the data that was on it. The extremely ...