Sorry to all for the late response, i could only find the time to do so.
Make and model External Harddrive?
Capacity shown as 1,75 TB but appears almost completely full. ( I prefer to limit my drives to 70-80% of capacity - that is just me.)
USB connection direct to TV - correct?
Make and model TV? What is the default file type for files recorded by the TV?
I believe that the starting point is to find the applicable TV User Guide/Manual and learn what defaults/options etc. are available when an external storage device is plugged in.
I would not expect that the TV would immediately start overwriting files, formatting, or making other changes to the External harddrive without some end user confirmation.
However, some manufacturer's just make all decisions for the end user in some simple brute force manner that is cheaper to code and implement.
Knowing more about both the hard drive and the TV may help find a solution.
Hopefully the data is backed up somewhere else and/or the original data is still available on the original host drive.
TOSHIBA MQ01ABB200 2000,3 GB is the external drive i am using. It was as far as i remember around 70% its full capacity maybe lower, it shows wrong now since the data looks corrupted or just the index.
Direct to the receiver not the TV, sorry for the wrong information. Couldn't really find the make model of the receiver which is not a good one for sure. The file types are Fat32 as far as i am aware for recording on that device. Couldn't sadly find any manuals. The receiver indeed started the formatting right on without asking for confirmation.
Good news is that i did a quick format directly from windows to NTFS and now i can reach my data via programs like Recuva or DMDE, and they look all preserved somehow(not sure).
A 2TB HDD, that the TV started to reformat as FAT32.
Yeah, that "important data" is likely gone.
Looks like not, but just the indexes are.
Can you show us the Partitions window in DMDE?
https://dmde.com/
Don't write anything to your damaged drive.
First of all thanks for the program suggestion, i have never heard of that one before and it did show me all the files i had in my HDD right on, without doing anything but quick formatting to NTFS before
Now i am just looking for a way to completely restore the data without losing anything which feels completely possible to me after reaching to data properly via DMDE.
Currently, trying to use the DMDE app to recover the files, but it is asking me for a drive and folder to recover files to. I don't even know if i can pick the exact same disk to recover the files to, if not, i will be needing a disk that has around 1.5TB of empty space which looks like a small problem to deal with right now.
Any suggestions?