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Hi,
I searched the forums trying to find an answer but I can't seem to find one, so I was hoping to get help. I have a drive that was accidentally formatted from a windows install. It was I believe the quick format because it only took a few seconds. Can I recover the file structure, including folders and file names in those folders? If so are there instructions on how to do that?

TestDisk and PhotoRec can not recover the file structure and the original filenames after a quick format.
The exception: if the partition was a FAT32, run PhotoRec, enable the expert mode, start the recovery, answer Y when asked "Try to unformat a FAT filesystem (Y/N)".
Otherwise PhotoRec can recover most files but without the original file structure and filenames.

Thank you for the reply. Is there any way to do that? I can see the file names and file structure by using another program but the program doesn't restore them.