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Hi!

I accidentally started formatting an external drive. After a second or so i ripped the cord out.
The diskmanager now shows the disk as RAW.
Testdisk can find a FAT 16 partition but it states BAD Boot sector.
I choose to rebuild the BS. After several hours i got the question if a directory was found. My options where Yes, no, Quit, Abort interactive mode.
There was a list of some kind with strange dates in it. I was not sure so i choose to abort.
Unfortunately i havent got the posibility to save the picture online so i cant post it here.

Can someone please guide me?

Please post a Testdisk log file.

7. What is the size of your disk?
8. Who is the maker of your failed drive?
9. What is the model?
13. How many partitions have been on the broken drive, what was their size, what was their file system?

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

7. I think its a 1TB drive.
8. Buffalo
9. Buffalo Ministation HD-PCTU3
13. It was just one. Cant remember the filesystem but i would suspect it was NTFS

Mon Dec 26 13:45:28 2022
Command line: TestDisk

TestDisk 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery Utility, November 2022
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Windows 8 (9200)
Compiler: GCC 11.2, Cygwin32 3001.4
ext2fs lib: 1.45.3, ntfs lib: 10:0:0, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 20140608, curses lib: ncurses 6.1
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive0)=250059350016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\PhysicalDrive1)=1000204886016
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\C:)=249446338560
disk_get_size_win32 IOCTL_DISK_GET_LENGTH_INFO(\\.\D:)=1000202043392
Hard disk list
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB, S/N:0025_3858_81B1_C3A5., FW:1B2QEXE7
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63, sector size=512 - BUFFALO HD-PCTU3, S/N:B311000874, FW:0001

Partition table type (auto): Intel
Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - BUFFALO HD-PCTU3
Partition table type: Intel

Analyse Disk \\.\PhysicalDrive1 - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63
Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63


test_FAT()
1 P FAT16 >32M 0 32 33 121601 25 24 1953519616
sector_size 0
cluster_size 0
reserved 0
fats 0
dir_entries 0
sectors 0
media 00
fat_length 0
secs_track 0
heads 0
hidden 0
total_sect 0
check_part_i386 failed for partition type 06
Current partition structure:
Invalid FAT boot sector
1 P FAT16 >32M 0 32 33 121601 25 24 1953519616
1 P FAT16 >32M 0 32 33 121601 25 24 1953519616
No partition is bootable

Here are step by step instructions:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

If trying to list your files using the "p"-key fails even upon deep search, use another (commercial) recovery software or use Photorec.