Lost my external Hard Drive when creating installation media (Boot Disc). Lost files?
I accidentally or cluelessly used my ( main partition ) external 1TB HD to create installation media for Windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I didn't think it through and now I have a 32GB Boot Drive ESD-USB (E:) (Wich didn't work, for some reason "No operating system found" message...) and the rest of the 900+ GB are lost or simply invisible or hidden (I hope)
Anyway, The external HD was over 400GB of files.
Used recovery software (Recuva and Puran, portables) wich limits (apparently) to 32 GB or so, and another (currently scanning...) EaseUS Data Recovery actually allowed me to select a 900GB "LOST!!! partition". And found files waay over 1TB plus they are unnamed!!!
Please, help
Can the "lost partition" be found or recovered without information loss?
What procedure would you recommend?
Thanks in advance. Good Night.
windows-10 partitioning external-hard-drive file-recovery
asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
Fernando YPFernando YP
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I accidentally or cluelessly used my ( main partition ) external 1TB HD to create installation media for Windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I didn't think it through and now I have a 32GB Boot Drive ESD-USB (E:) (Wich didn't work, for some reason "No operating system found" message...) and the rest of the 900+ GB are lost or simply invisible or hidden (I hope)
Anyway, The external HD was over 400GB of files.
Used recovery software (Recuva and Puran, portables) wich limits (apparently) to 32 GB or so, and another (currently scanning...) EaseUS Data Recovery actually allowed me to select a 900GB "LOST!!! partition". And found files waay over 1TB plus they are unnamed!!!
Please, help
Can the "lost partition" be found or recovered without information loss?
What procedure would you recommend?
Thanks in advance. Good Night.
windows-10 partitioning external-hard-drive file-recovery
asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
Fernando YPFernando YP
133
The file names are stored within the MFT - "master file table". Most recovery tools will look at both the MFT and the actual drive data, scanning for commonalities for specific files to be able to recover as much as possible. However, only the MFT stores the file names, timestamps and certain other meta data. If your MFT was outside the 32GB that was lost, you might be ok. But that's an extremely unlikely scenario.
– shawn
Dec 23 '18 at 2:30
add a comment |
I accidentally or cluelessly used my ( main partition ) external 1TB HD to create installation media for Windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I didn't think it through and now I have a 32GB Boot Drive ESD-USB (E:) (Wich didn't work, for some reason "No operating system found" message...) and the rest of the 900+ GB are lost or simply invisible or hidden (I hope)
Anyway, The external HD was over 400GB of files.
Used recovery software (Recuva and Puran, portables) wich limits (apparently) to 32 GB or so, and another (currently scanning...) EaseUS Data Recovery actually allowed me to select a 900GB "LOST!!! partition". And found files waay over 1TB plus they are unnamed!!!
Please, help
Can the "lost partition" be found or recovered without information loss?
What procedure would you recommend?
Thanks in advance. Good Night.
windows-10 partitioning external-hard-drive file-recovery
asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
Fernando YPFernando YP
133
I accidentally or cluelessly used my ( main partition ) external 1TB HD to create installation media for Windows 10:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I didn't think it through and now I have a 32GB Boot Drive ESD-USB (E:) (Wich didn't work, for some reason "No operating system found" message...) and the rest of the 900+ GB are lost or simply invisible or hidden (I hope)
Anyway, The external HD was over 400GB of files.
Used recovery software (Recuva and Puran, portables) wich limits (apparently) to 32 GB or so, and another (currently scanning...) EaseUS Data Recovery actually allowed me to select a 900GB "LOST!!! partition". And found files waay over 1TB plus they are unnamed!!!
Please, help
Can the "lost partition" be found or recovered without information loss?
What procedure would you recommend?
Thanks in advance. Good Night.
windows-10 partitioning external-hard-drive file-recovery
windows-10 partitioning external-hard-drive file-recovery
asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
Fernando YPFernando YP
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asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
Fernando YPFernando YP
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edited Dec 22 '18 at 2:21
Fernando YP
asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
Fernando YPFernando YP
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asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
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asked Dec 22 '18 at 2:09
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The file names are stored within the MFT - "master file table". Most recovery tools will look at both the MFT and the actual drive data, scanning for commonalities for specific files to be able to recover as much as possible. However, only the MFT stores the file names, timestamps and certain other meta data. If your MFT was outside the 32GB that was lost, you might be ok. But that's an extremely unlikely scenario.
– shawn
Dec 23 '18 at 2:30
add a comment |
The file names are stored within the MFT - "master file table". Most recovery tools will look at both the MFT and the actual drive data, scanning for commonalities for specific files to be able to recover as much as possible. However, only the MFT stores the file names, timestamps and certain other meta data. If your MFT was outside the 32GB that was lost, you might be ok. But that's an extremely unlikely scenario.
– shawn
Dec 23 '18 at 2:30
The file names are stored within the MFT - "master file table". Most recovery tools will look at both the MFT and the actual drive data, scanning for commonalities for specific files to be able to recover as much as possible. However, only the MFT stores the file names, timestamps and certain other meta data. If your MFT was outside the 32GB that was lost, you might be ok. But that's an extremely unlikely scenario.
– shawn
Dec 23 '18 at 2:30
The file names are stored within the MFT - "master file table". Most recovery tools will look at both the MFT and the actual drive data, scanning for commonalities for specific files to be able to recover as much as possible. However, only the MFT stores the file names, timestamps and certain other meta data. If your MFT was outside the 32GB that was lost, you might be ok. But that's an extremely unlikely scenario.
– shawn
Dec 23 '18 at 2:30
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Now I realize that you mean you've formatted the external drive, and it's not your main system drive
First of all, 32gb worth the data has been destroyed, and some other data has probably been corrupted. On the upside though, the majority of your data is safe and sound. Don't do anything to that drive for the moment, as it will just destroy/corrupt more data.
It sounds like you were 90% of the way to having fixed the issue yourself. Looking at how EaseUS is setup, if you relaunch it, and "scan" that lost partition, you can recover the data to another location. (I'm 80% sure that you can't initially recover it to the same drive, since the drivespace isn't partitioned. However, if there's an option within EaseUS to recover to the same drive, for all I know, it could be possible) I don't know how much drivespace you have available to you outside of that external drive, but I think that would be your only option (aside from the potential option i listed in parenthesis earlier)
Anyways, That's it. As long as you don't write anything else to that hard drive or melt the platters, your data (aside from the already corrupted bit from the recovery media) should be perfectly fine.
I'm not sure about EaseUS, but I believe Recuva shows what files are intact, and what is damaged/corrupted and to what to degree.
By the way, here is a reference to help with scanning/recovering the data in EaseUS, and I think this proves what I was thinking about not wanting to recover to the same drive. First Paragraph under "How to recover and repair corrupted files from hard disk after recovery", "we always recommend them to choose a different location to save the recovered data, to prevent data overwriting from happening"
Misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize how it was mildly impossible the way I interpreted it. Below is my original response, feel free to straight up ignore it.
I'd like to comment and ask for some info to help me/others, but I
don't have enough rep, so I'll deliver as complete of an answer as I
can.
If EaseUS says there's a lost partition, there likely is just a
partition sitting somewhere with all of your data on it. First, let's
find out what partition that is.
First, check your filexplorer's "this PC" tab, to see if there's a
visible partition you can access next to your "windows (c:)" drive. If
there's nothing there, continue down.
- From your taskbar search bar, type CMD, right click command prompt, and run it as an administrator
- Type
DISKPART& press enter
- Type
List volume& press enter
- Identify the letter of the "missing space" volume by looking at the size column (should be around 900gb from what you say)
Now you have two routes. First route) Open file explorer, and type
<letter>:into the filepath bar at the top. If you see a lot of
files, voila, your data is there. Now, migrate all of your data to an
external drive, as the next step will likely purge your data, and
follow the "Merge partitions with diskpart" section of this guide
to delete that partition, and merge the now unallocated space into
your main drive. Then just port your data back from the external
drive, to your main drive
Second Route) Follow this guide to use a third party software
(NIUBI Partition editor) to just merge the partitions without having
to move your data and move it back. I personally haven't used the
software before, but I've no reason to think it's malicious, and a
quick search reveals nothing to it's discredit.
Good luck!
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
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Now I realize that you mean you've formatted the external drive, and it's not your main system drive
First of all, 32gb worth the data has been destroyed, and some other data has probably been corrupted. On the upside though, the majority of your data is safe and sound. Don't do anything to that drive for the moment, as it will just destroy/corrupt more data.
It sounds like you were 90% of the way to having fixed the issue yourself. Looking at how EaseUS is setup, if you relaunch it, and "scan" that lost partition, you can recover the data to another location. (I'm 80% sure that you can't initially recover it to the same drive, since the drivespace isn't partitioned. However, if there's an option within EaseUS to recover to the same drive, for all I know, it could be possible) I don't know how much drivespace you have available to you outside of that external drive, but I think that would be your only option (aside from the potential option i listed in parenthesis earlier)
Anyways, That's it. As long as you don't write anything else to that hard drive or melt the platters, your data (aside from the already corrupted bit from the recovery media) should be perfectly fine.
I'm not sure about EaseUS, but I believe Recuva shows what files are intact, and what is damaged/corrupted and to what to degree.
By the way, here is a reference to help with scanning/recovering the data in EaseUS, and I think this proves what I was thinking about not wanting to recover to the same drive. First Paragraph under "How to recover and repair corrupted files from hard disk after recovery", "we always recommend them to choose a different location to save the recovered data, to prevent data overwriting from happening"
Misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize how it was mildly impossible the way I interpreted it. Below is my original response, feel free to straight up ignore it.
I'd like to comment and ask for some info to help me/others, but I
don't have enough rep, so I'll deliver as complete of an answer as I
can.
If EaseUS says there's a lost partition, there likely is just a
partition sitting somewhere with all of your data on it. First, let's
find out what partition that is.
First, check your filexplorer's "this PC" tab, to see if there's a
visible partition you can access next to your "windows (c:)" drive. If
there's nothing there, continue down.
- From your taskbar search bar, type CMD, right click command prompt, and run it as an administrator
- Type
DISKPART& press enter
- Type
List volume& press enter
- Identify the letter of the "missing space" volume by looking at the size column (should be around 900gb from what you say)
Now you have two routes. First route) Open file explorer, and type
<letter>:into the filepath bar at the top. If you see a lot of
files, voila, your data is there. Now, migrate all of your data to an
external drive, as the next step will likely purge your data, and
follow the "Merge partitions with diskpart" section of this guide
to delete that partition, and merge the now unallocated space into
your main drive. Then just port your data back from the external
drive, to your main drive
Second Route) Follow this guide to use a third party software
(NIUBI Partition editor) to just merge the partitions without having
to move your data and move it back. I personally haven't used the
software before, but I've no reason to think it's malicious, and a
quick search reveals nothing to it's discredit.
Good luck!
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
|
show 1 more comment
Now I realize that you mean you've formatted the external drive, and it's not your main system drive
First of all, 32gb worth the data has been destroyed, and some other data has probably been corrupted. On the upside though, the majority of your data is safe and sound. Don't do anything to that drive for the moment, as it will just destroy/corrupt more data.
It sounds like you were 90% of the way to having fixed the issue yourself. Looking at how EaseUS is setup, if you relaunch it, and "scan" that lost partition, you can recover the data to another location. (I'm 80% sure that you can't initially recover it to the same drive, since the drivespace isn't partitioned. However, if there's an option within EaseUS to recover to the same drive, for all I know, it could be possible) I don't know how much drivespace you have available to you outside of that external drive, but I think that would be your only option (aside from the potential option i listed in parenthesis earlier)
Anyways, That's it. As long as you don't write anything else to that hard drive or melt the platters, your data (aside from the already corrupted bit from the recovery media) should be perfectly fine.
I'm not sure about EaseUS, but I believe Recuva shows what files are intact, and what is damaged/corrupted and to what to degree.
By the way, here is a reference to help with scanning/recovering the data in EaseUS, and I think this proves what I was thinking about not wanting to recover to the same drive. First Paragraph under "How to recover and repair corrupted files from hard disk after recovery", "we always recommend them to choose a different location to save the recovered data, to prevent data overwriting from happening"
Misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize how it was mildly impossible the way I interpreted it. Below is my original response, feel free to straight up ignore it.
I'd like to comment and ask for some info to help me/others, but I
don't have enough rep, so I'll deliver as complete of an answer as I
can.
If EaseUS says there's a lost partition, there likely is just a
partition sitting somewhere with all of your data on it. First, let's
find out what partition that is.
First, check your filexplorer's "this PC" tab, to see if there's a
visible partition you can access next to your "windows (c:)" drive. If
there's nothing there, continue down.
- From your taskbar search bar, type CMD, right click command prompt, and run it as an administrator
- Type
DISKPART& press enter
- Type
List volume& press enter
- Identify the letter of the "missing space" volume by looking at the size column (should be around 900gb from what you say)
Now you have two routes. First route) Open file explorer, and type
<letter>:into the filepath bar at the top. If you see a lot of
files, voila, your data is there. Now, migrate all of your data to an
external drive, as the next step will likely purge your data, and
follow the "Merge partitions with diskpart" section of this guide
to delete that partition, and merge the now unallocated space into
your main drive. Then just port your data back from the external
drive, to your main drive
Second Route) Follow this guide to use a third party software
(NIUBI Partition editor) to just merge the partitions without having
to move your data and move it back. I personally haven't used the
software before, but I've no reason to think it's malicious, and a
quick search reveals nothing to it's discredit.
Good luck!
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
|
show 1 more comment
Now I realize that you mean you've formatted the external drive, and it's not your main system drive
First of all, 32gb worth the data has been destroyed, and some other data has probably been corrupted. On the upside though, the majority of your data is safe and sound. Don't do anything to that drive for the moment, as it will just destroy/corrupt more data.
It sounds like you were 90% of the way to having fixed the issue yourself. Looking at how EaseUS is setup, if you relaunch it, and "scan" that lost partition, you can recover the data to another location. (I'm 80% sure that you can't initially recover it to the same drive, since the drivespace isn't partitioned. However, if there's an option within EaseUS to recover to the same drive, for all I know, it could be possible) I don't know how much drivespace you have available to you outside of that external drive, but I think that would be your only option (aside from the potential option i listed in parenthesis earlier)
Anyways, That's it. As long as you don't write anything else to that hard drive or melt the platters, your data (aside from the already corrupted bit from the recovery media) should be perfectly fine.
I'm not sure about EaseUS, but I believe Recuva shows what files are intact, and what is damaged/corrupted and to what to degree.
By the way, here is a reference to help with scanning/recovering the data in EaseUS, and I think this proves what I was thinking about not wanting to recover to the same drive. First Paragraph under "How to recover and repair corrupted files from hard disk after recovery", "we always recommend them to choose a different location to save the recovered data, to prevent data overwriting from happening"
Misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize how it was mildly impossible the way I interpreted it. Below is my original response, feel free to straight up ignore it.
I'd like to comment and ask for some info to help me/others, but I
don't have enough rep, so I'll deliver as complete of an answer as I
can.
If EaseUS says there's a lost partition, there likely is just a
partition sitting somewhere with all of your data on it. First, let's
find out what partition that is.
First, check your filexplorer's "this PC" tab, to see if there's a
visible partition you can access next to your "windows (c:)" drive. If
there's nothing there, continue down.
- From your taskbar search bar, type CMD, right click command prompt, and run it as an administrator
- Type
DISKPART& press enter
- Type
List volume& press enter
- Identify the letter of the "missing space" volume by looking at the size column (should be around 900gb from what you say)
Now you have two routes. First route) Open file explorer, and type
<letter>:into the filepath bar at the top. If you see a lot of
files, voila, your data is there. Now, migrate all of your data to an
external drive, as the next step will likely purge your data, and
follow the "Merge partitions with diskpart" section of this guide
to delete that partition, and merge the now unallocated space into
your main drive. Then just port your data back from the external
drive, to your main drive
Second Route) Follow this guide to use a third party software
(NIUBI Partition editor) to just merge the partitions without having
to move your data and move it back. I personally haven't used the
software before, but I've no reason to think it's malicious, and a
quick search reveals nothing to it's discredit.
Good luck!
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
Now I realize that you mean you've formatted the external drive, and it's not your main system drive
First of all, 32gb worth the data has been destroyed, and some other data has probably been corrupted. On the upside though, the majority of your data is safe and sound. Don't do anything to that drive for the moment, as it will just destroy/corrupt more data.
It sounds like you were 90% of the way to having fixed the issue yourself. Looking at how EaseUS is setup, if you relaunch it, and "scan" that lost partition, you can recover the data to another location. (I'm 80% sure that you can't initially recover it to the same drive, since the drivespace isn't partitioned. However, if there's an option within EaseUS to recover to the same drive, for all I know, it could be possible) I don't know how much drivespace you have available to you outside of that external drive, but I think that would be your only option (aside from the potential option i listed in parenthesis earlier)
Anyways, That's it. As long as you don't write anything else to that hard drive or melt the platters, your data (aside from the already corrupted bit from the recovery media) should be perfectly fine.
I'm not sure about EaseUS, but I believe Recuva shows what files are intact, and what is damaged/corrupted and to what to degree.
By the way, here is a reference to help with scanning/recovering the data in EaseUS, and I think this proves what I was thinking about not wanting to recover to the same drive. First Paragraph under "How to recover and repair corrupted files from hard disk after recovery", "we always recommend them to choose a different location to save the recovered data, to prevent data overwriting from happening"
Misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize how it was mildly impossible the way I interpreted it. Below is my original response, feel free to straight up ignore it.
I'd like to comment and ask for some info to help me/others, but I
don't have enough rep, so I'll deliver as complete of an answer as I
can.
If EaseUS says there's a lost partition, there likely is just a
partition sitting somewhere with all of your data on it. First, let's
find out what partition that is.
First, check your filexplorer's "this PC" tab, to see if there's a
visible partition you can access next to your "windows (c:)" drive. If
there's nothing there, continue down.
- From your taskbar search bar, type CMD, right click command prompt, and run it as an administrator
- Type
DISKPART& press enter
- Type
List volume& press enter
- Identify the letter of the "missing space" volume by looking at the size column (should be around 900gb from what you say)
Now you have two routes. First route) Open file explorer, and type
<letter>:into the filepath bar at the top. If you see a lot of
files, voila, your data is there. Now, migrate all of your data to an
external drive, as the next step will likely purge your data, and
follow the "Merge partitions with diskpart" section of this guide
to delete that partition, and merge the now unallocated space into
your main drive. Then just port your data back from the external
drive, to your main drive
Second Route) Follow this guide to use a third party software
(NIUBI Partition editor) to just merge the partitions without having
to move your data and move it back. I personally haven't used the
software before, but I've no reason to think it's malicious, and a
quick search reveals nothing to it's discredit.
Good luck!
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
edited Dec 22 '18 at 4:40
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
answered Dec 22 '18 at 2:47
StarkRightsStarkRights
164
164
Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
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Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
Hello Stark Thanks for your answer. List Disk lists 2 HD local HD and THE external HD (size : 931GB) (Available: 899GB) - List volume only shows E: ESD-USB FAT32 (32GB) - List partition list none of the External HD. So We get a 1TB disk but only a 32 GB volume and no partitions...
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:00
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
That is 900GB Unassigned and the 32GB primary for the installation media
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 4:06
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
Sorry, I misread the question almost entirely and didn't even realize that it would've been mildly impossible the way I thought it was.. I'm writing an edit right now to address what you should actually do.
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:25
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
@FernandoYP Answer edited with what should be the info you need
– StarkRights
Dec 22 '18 at 4:42
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
From the answer I understan that the data has been deleted and the only option is recovery, wich is "complicated" since the application has alrready scanned over 2GB of data and the names are mostly "not the original ones" plus some file extensions do noteven show up. Thanks a lot for your Help Stark. I'll be more carefull from now on and double back up my most sensitive information.
– Fernando YP
Dec 22 '18 at 6:59
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The file names are stored within the MFT - "master file table". Most recovery tools will look at both the MFT and the actual drive data, scanning for commonalities for specific files to be able to recover as much as possible. However, only the MFT stores the file names, timestamps and certain other meta data. If your MFT was outside the 32GB that was lost, you might be ok. But that's an extremely unlikely scenario.
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