Hello,
i have 1tb ssd usb drive which was a ntfs drive, under ubuntu 20.04 i formated this drive to ext4.
Is it possible to revert this / recover the data?
the drive was not mounted under linux or written on after.
Best regards, help is very much appriciated
Nenad
Formated NTFS to EXT4, recover to NTFS
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Re: Formated NTFS to EXT4, recover to NTFS
As I don't know the extent of overwriting when formatting a partition with ext4 you will have to try that out. Please read:
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec