Yup, I did that. Fat-fingered & did a quick format on my external HDD (NTFS, not SSD) with tons of photos & video files! Arghh. (I'm running Win10.) I'm looking at some of the recovery software (Disk Drill, EaseUS, Recuva etc.) and several of them do find my files - but with generic names like recoveredfile0001.jpg, no metadata, no path. You see the problem with 50,000 or more files to recover! I've been careful not to perform any file ops on that drive since.
Can I recover the entire disk & contents? Is there any way to "unformat" it?
Can I recover filenames & paths, and recreate the directory tree?
I guess my hope is I can just recover the MFT and restore everything will be as it was. Am I dreaming? Should I be looking at partition recovery instead? Ideas appreciated!!
Can I recover the entire disk & contents? Is there any way to "unformat" it?
Can I recover filenames & paths, and recreate the directory tree?
I guess my hope is I can just recover the MFT and restore everything will be as it was. Am I dreaming? Should I be looking at partition recovery instead? Ideas appreciated!!