I know there's a sticky about this which I read, but with all of the software options I am wondering if people have suggestions for their favorite recovery software to try first. Unfortunately time is of the essence right now for me. 🙁
I believe I mistakenly put my data drive into my RAID tower which formatted it and set it up for RAID1. Of course I then copied about 1GB of data to it before realizing my fault. It's a 3TB drive which must have been formatted with GPT both when it was simply an external drive (with my data) and again formatted when I created the RAID.
I know partition recovery is out of the question. And maybe even directory structure, but I'm hoping to recover at least the actual file names (and HOPEFULLY) some of the structure as well. I believe there is about 1.5TB of data I would like to recover.
I am of course not writing anything to the disk.
I used Recuva as it's always been an awesome tool. It found a ton of files after running 10 hours over night. I'm recovering those now. Unfortunately it named most of the files [000123.xx] which is better than nothing, but will be very difficult to sort. And there is no directory structure.
I tried EaseUS Partition Master (which includes a data recover program) to look at the drive. It found some structure still in tact and even real file names! Unfortunately it's only seeing the 3TB drive as 700GB (or so) which I understand has to do with the drive being GPT formatted - it looks like EaseUS can't see the drive in it's entirety.
I've read that I can try Pandora Recover, Glarysoft Glary Undelete, and DMDE for example. I'm open to paid software too. I guess I'm just wondering if any of you have had great luck with any of these specifically which you would encourage me to try FIRST. I don't mind trying all of these softwares (or even paying for "Pro" versions as well). But, of course I'm under a time constraint and if it takes 10 hours for each software to scan, I fear I may be wasting a lot of time with trial an error... which might end up being the way to do it anyways...
Any recommendations would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thank you!
-Stephen
I believe I mistakenly put my data drive into my RAID tower which formatted it and set it up for RAID1. Of course I then copied about 1GB of data to it before realizing my fault. It's a 3TB drive which must have been formatted with GPT both when it was simply an external drive (with my data) and again formatted when I created the RAID.
I know partition recovery is out of the question. And maybe even directory structure, but I'm hoping to recover at least the actual file names (and HOPEFULLY) some of the structure as well. I believe there is about 1.5TB of data I would like to recover.
I am of course not writing anything to the disk.
I used Recuva as it's always been an awesome tool. It found a ton of files after running 10 hours over night. I'm recovering those now. Unfortunately it named most of the files [000123.xx] which is better than nothing, but will be very difficult to sort. And there is no directory structure.
I tried EaseUS Partition Master (which includes a data recover program) to look at the drive. It found some structure still in tact and even real file names! Unfortunately it's only seeing the 3TB drive as 700GB (or so) which I understand has to do with the drive being GPT formatted - it looks like EaseUS can't see the drive in it's entirety.
I've read that I can try Pandora Recover, Glarysoft Glary Undelete, and DMDE for example. I'm open to paid software too. I guess I'm just wondering if any of you have had great luck with any of these specifically which you would encourage me to try FIRST. I don't mind trying all of these softwares (or even paying for "Pro" versions as well). But, of course I'm under a time constraint and if it takes 10 hours for each software to scan, I fear I may be wasting a lot of time with trial an error... which might end up being the way to do it anyways...
Any recommendations would be GREATLY appreciated!
Thank you!
-Stephen
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