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Hello,
I had Linux on my notebook with 2 primary partitions, system and data, both ext4. Then I had to switch to Windows and changed the second partition to a logical FAT32-partition. Then I realised what I had done and that my backup is a couple months old. Stupid decision.

Here are screenshots from testdisk:





It says "Large File Sparse SB Backup SB" and testdisk doesn't show me any files: "filesystem may be damaged"

Is there any chance to recover the data from the partition at least partialy?

Thank you very much, Philipp

To try to recover your ext4 partition, use the arrow keys to switch this partition to P(rimary).
On next screen, choose Write, confirm, Quit
After a reboot, run again TestDisk, Advanced, select the Linux partition, SuperBlock, use the information to run fsck.
You can run fsck from a Linux LiveDVD/LiveUSB.
If fsck failed to repair your filesystem, use PhotoRec to recover your data. PhotoRec will not recover the original filenames.
Good luck

Thank you very much for your help!

I did run fsck with this result:


Now the filesystem looks like this:


Should I run fsck manually, like fsck recommends?