tonyturley
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- Location
- Scott Depot, WV, USA
- Name
- Tony
I have a 1TB drive that I accidentally started to format during a Linux upgrade, then realized I had selected the wrong drive from the pick list. I immediately stopped the process, but the partition table was already gone. I can use freeware data recovery software to scan the drive, and I can see all of the folders and individual files sitting there. I tried to recover some of the files using the same freeware, but it has a limit of 1G, and I have about 700G worth of files. I even purchased EaseUS for my wife's Win10 laptop, and tried recovering data with that. What is weird is EaseUS shows thumbnails of all the recovered files, but when I try to open them, they are almost all badly pixelated or corrupted. I also consulted with a commercial data recovery outfit, but they wanted $900 USD, without guarantee of success.
I know some of you are much more computer savvy than I. Can anyone recommend a good data recovery app, preferably for Linux Ubuntu? I know it will take a lot of time to scan and recover data, but I'm OK with that. I know it's probably a pipe dream, but is there any way to rebuild the partition table so the drive is directly accessible again, or is that just asking for permanent loss of files?
I know some of you are much more computer savvy than I. Can anyone recommend a good data recovery app, preferably for Linux Ubuntu? I know it will take a lot of time to scan and recover data, but I'm OK with that. I know it's probably a pipe dream, but is there any way to rebuild the partition table so the drive is directly accessible again, or is that just asking for permanent loss of files?