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Formated NTFS to EXT4, recover to NTFS

Posted: 06 Aug 2020, 05:32
by nenad
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

Re: Formated NTFS to EXT4, recover to NTFS

Posted: 06 Aug 2020, 07:30
by recuperation
nenad wrote: 06 Aug 2020, 05:32 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?
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