Hi everyone,
I've got a 2 TB external USB drive that I used for storing stuff, like Files, Music, Videos etc all on a Win 10 System.
I thought I needed the drive for a Synology backup in an emergency. So I formatted it as an Ext4 whilst connected to a Synology.
In the end I didn't need it for the Synology.
Can I use TestDisk to get all the files and directories back?
Or would PhotoRec be best?
It's not the end of the world if I can't, but it's good practice for when I really need the information
Cheers.
Recover Ext Win 10 Drive formatted as EXT4
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Re: Recover Ext Win 10 Drive formatted as EXT4
You can use testdisk to recover your NTFS partition and next photorec to recover the files from this partition if windows is unable to list them.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf for details on to use them.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf for details on to use them.
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Re: Recover Ext Win 10 Drive formatted as EXT4
Thank you cgrenier
I'll give it a go !
I'll give it a go !
Re: Recover Ext Win 10 Drive formatted as EXT4
TestDisk worked just fine for me! Thank you so much cgreniercgrenier wrote: ↑05 Feb 2018, 07:03 You can use testdisk to recover your NTFS partition and next photorec to recover the files from this partition if windows is unable to list them.
Read https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf for details on to use them.