Recover exFAT Partition after formatting with NTFS

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amanzi
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Recover exFAT Partition after formatting with NTFS

#1 Post by amanzi »

Hello
I have an external HDD, 2GB, USB. It was formatted with exFAT by using Windows 10 Disk Management Tool. There were 700 GB Data on it.
Unfortunately, I formatted the 2GB Drive using the Disk Management Tool with NTFS, Quick formatting.

testdisk is finding a NTFS Partition. How can I instruct Testdisk to look for the older exFAT table or data-structure?
I haven't written any data on the HDD since. It was mounted in a linux for a short time.
Thanks for helping!
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Re: Recover exFAT Partition after formatting with NTFS

#2 Post by cgrenier »

To find your exFAT, try TestDisk, Analyse, Quick Search, Stop (if available), Deeper Search.
If it doesn't work, run PhotoRec, enable the expert mode in Options, stat the recovery.
Use a 512 bytes blocksize, use the default options otherwise (no need to create an image_remaining.dd file)
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