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by dbotop
22 Aug 2016, 09:13
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Accidental Reformat WD Elements 3 TB ext. drive
Replies: 2
Views: 2286

Re: Accidental Reformat WD Elements 3 TB ext. drive

Thank you for your quick response. I tried both ways with the new Testdisk 7.1 version. It does (only) find the file:

System Volume Information/ EfaSidat_"long number".

and a similar named file in the recycle bin, which seems to be damaged and cannot be coppied.

I copied the first file to a ...
by dbotop
21 Aug 2016, 17:04
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Accidental Reformat WD Elements 3 TB ext. drive
Replies: 2
Views: 2286

Accidental Reformat WD Elements 3 TB ext. drive

Hi,

I accidently (quick) formatted my WD Elements 3.0 TB external drive having one single partition. Although most of the files are just back ups of the internal harddisk, there are also quite a few orignal file such as video's, pictures, etc. on the WD disk. Using file recovery programs to ...