Help recovering files from accidentally formatted ext HDD
Posted: 14 Jan 2018, 17:26
New user here so any and all help is much appreciated.
I accidentally formatted a 2T External HDD thinking it was a different one. I believe it was originally Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I formatted as ExFat as I have both Windows and Mac machines now.
I ran Test Disk > Create > Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB > [EFI GPT] (I chose this because it defaulted on it and wasn't sure) > Analyze
Where I then received this message:
Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - 3907029167 sectors
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Trying alternate GPT
and I chose > [Quick Search]
I let this run for over 12 hours but it only got to 29% and I ran out of disk space due to a huge log file, 340 GB. I got this over and over again:
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212475(1212475/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,8,buffer,1212489(1212489/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,11,buffer,1212536(1212536/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1214459(1214459/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212426(1212426/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212429(1212429/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212476(1212476/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212497(1212497/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212547(1212547/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1214460(1214460/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212427(1212427/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
Any ideas? Thank you
I accidentally formatted a 2T External HDD thinking it was a different one. I believe it was originally Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and I formatted as ExFat as I have both Windows and Mac machines now.
I ran Test Disk > Create > Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB > [EFI GPT] (I chose this because it defaulted on it and wasn't sure) > Analyze
Where I then received this message:
Disk /dev/rdisk2 - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - 3907029167 sectors
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Trying alternate GPT
and I chose > [Quick Search]
I let this run for over 12 hours but it only got to 29% and I ran out of disk space due to a huge log file, 340 GB. I got this over and over again:
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212475(1212475/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,8,buffer,1212489(1212489/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,11,buffer,1212536(1212536/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1214459(1214459/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212426(1212426/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212429(1212429/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212476(1212476/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212497(1212497/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212547(1212547/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1214460(1214460/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
file_pread(9,1,buffer,1212427(1212427/0/1)) read err: Device not configured
Any ideas? Thank you