Advice please - stupidly overwrote partitions!
Posted: 11 Jul 2017, 21:46
Any help much appreciated.
2TB USB3 external HDD - single partitions, I'm fairly sure it was formatted as NTFS.
Went to install Raspbian on to MicroSD card using Win32DiskImager. Unfortunately got distracted whilst doing so by a phone call and just clicked to proceed, forgetting that I still had my external HDD plugged in, as well as the microSD card.
Needless to say it had defaulted to the external HDD! I realised within a few seconds what had happened and stopped the process, however by this point it had already overwritten the partition setup to a new one with a FAT32 boot partition and a much larger Linux one.
Any ideas how recover my data? I ran a 'quick' scan (which took about 10h), then a deeper scan (which took about the same again) and only seemed to be offered the existing partitions.
I tried PhotoRec and it is getting some DSLR photos & videos back, but I've got a few VeraCrypt files on there too - from what I understand as they don't have a clear file header wouldn't be recoverable by PhotoRec, even as a custom filetype?
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated - perhaps any advanced options in TestDisk I'm missing??
Thanks!
2TB USB3 external HDD - single partitions, I'm fairly sure it was formatted as NTFS.
Went to install Raspbian on to MicroSD card using Win32DiskImager. Unfortunately got distracted whilst doing so by a phone call and just clicked to proceed, forgetting that I still had my external HDD plugged in, as well as the microSD card.
Needless to say it had defaulted to the external HDD! I realised within a few seconds what had happened and stopped the process, however by this point it had already overwritten the partition setup to a new one with a FAT32 boot partition and a much larger Linux one.
Any ideas how recover my data? I ran a 'quick' scan (which took about 10h), then a deeper scan (which took about the same again) and only seemed to be offered the existing partitions.
I tried PhotoRec and it is getting some DSLR photos & videos back, but I've got a few VeraCrypt files on there too - from what I understand as they don't have a clear file header wouldn't be recoverable by PhotoRec, even as a custom filetype?
Any suggestions gratefully appreciated - perhaps any advanced options in TestDisk I'm missing??
Thanks!