Wiped free space in MBR using CCleaner, disk unusable
Posted: 05 Jun 2018, 16:49
Please help, I am very stupid!
I used the wipe free space and free space in MBR setting in ccleaner, and now my disk is totally unusable. I saw that it definitely wrote a file in the top directory that matched the free space size and the disk was readable until the last 50 minutes so I have a feeling the files are still there.
Testdisk correctly finds the disk is GPT but it can't find any partitions. Photorec has not been run for a long time but it did not find any files at all at the start.
What can I do to recover anything? Is it totally a loss? I have some very precious files on this drive!
I used the wipe free space and free space in MBR setting in ccleaner, and now my disk is totally unusable. I saw that it definitely wrote a file in the top directory that matched the free space size and the disk was readable until the last 50 minutes so I have a feeling the files are still there.
Testdisk correctly finds the disk is GPT but it can't find any partitions. Photorec has not been run for a long time but it did not find any files at all at the start.
What can I do to recover anything? Is it totally a loss? I have some very precious files on this drive!