Hello,
I formated my exfat usb drive to ext4 with Gparted. I am not sure wether the drive was previously formatted with Windows 7,GParted or OSX to exfat.
Now I would like to recover my files with testdisk. As I never did that before and the data is critical I need support with a quick HowTo.
Exfat partition accidently formated to ext4
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Re: Exfat partition accidently formated to ext4
You can try TestDisk, Advanced, select the partition, force the type to NTFS (or exFAT if available), Boot and BackupBS.
If it doesn't work, use PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step
If it doesn't work, use PhotoRec http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step