Accidentally formatted my 2 TB HDD

[Skilledfire]

I know this might be in the wrong section, but I'm still gonna continue. Ok, so it was just a regular on my computer, I decided to install Linux Mint (V17.3) so I setup the bootable USB drive started it up, then i clicked install linux selected the bottom selection and accidentally check "Format" on my Windows (7) partition, and then I kept getting an error, I forgot what it said but it kept coming on my screen when I hit ok, then the only button i could press was "Quit" so i clicked that and it just formatted my Windows (7) partition (which is 1 TB) and there is a lot of important data on there.

Thanks!

~ Skilled

PS: I already tried Recuva and EaseUS, and i haven't done anything to the drive since it got formatted.

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

you can install an OS to a different partition and then use data recovery software to try and recover as much of the formatted data as possible. i'm guessing this is what you attempted with Recuva?

I have had issues like this in the past and usually ~99% of data was still intact. both times used Seagate File Recovery for Windows.

 

[Skilledfire]

Ok, I installed Linux Mint and now I can use one of the built-in tools to recover the partition, it found the data but I can't find my 1 TB driive ATM, once I get it I'll tell you if it works!

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

when using one large disk for OS and storage a good option is to make a smaller partition for Windows and separate the OS install from the important data. if something like this happens again only the OS partition would be affected, not the important data.
Windows should only need ~50GB with quite a few larger programs installed with it.