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by xforce23
18 Dec 2016, 17:35
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: used mkfs on wrong ntfs harddrive
Replies: 3
Views: 2254

Re: used mkfs on wrong ntfs harddrive

backup superblock are written a little bit everywhere and they have overwritten data, so some of the recovered files will be corrupted
thats ok, as long as i approximately get back the old folder structure, i can redownload the corrupt files,



i just scanned using another program, and it found ...
by xforce23
16 Dec 2016, 23:13
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: used mkfs on wrong ntfs harddrive
Replies: 3
Views: 2254

used mkfs on wrong ntfs harddrive

so I just used mkfs.ext2 on my 8TB harddrive where I save all my important files, and noticed it too late

I assume none of the files were overwritten, but I noticed my mistake quite late, so the fileystem should be completely destroyed

how are my chances of recovering my files or better restoring ...