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PostPosted: October 28th, 2018, 11:57 
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Hi all, as the topic says I have accidentally overwritten my backup drive with iso image thinking that I am doing it on my USB drive, is there any way of reversing the damage, I have not taken any action, it happened just an hour ago, or should I go with some professional help? The command finished, i realized the problem post factum. The HDD is conventional, I think it is Hitachi if that matters and it is fully functional, thank you in advance
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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: October 28th, 2018, 15:54 
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Any data that was overwritten is lost. :-(

How large was the ISO?

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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: October 28th, 2018, 16:24 
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overwritten data is gone, if the Iso was larger than 3GB you likely lost the structure as well, assuming that drive had a NTFS partition.

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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: October 29th, 2018, 1:55 
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fzabkar wrote:
Any data that was overwritten is lost. :-(

How large was the ISO?


The iso is 2,00gb, what about the rest of the data? the HDD is 750gb and I had around 300gb of data?


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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: October 29th, 2018, 7:19 
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you are lucky i would say, use any decent data recovery (e.g r-studio) software and you will get the data, ofcourse 2gb is gone ....

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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: October 29th, 2018, 7:25 
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Can you show us the Partitions window with DMDE?

https://dmde.com/

It might take only a couple of clicks to see your data.

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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: October 29th, 2018, 10:27 
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if only I have seen these posts earlier, I have just left my disk to a professional data recovery company, they said that it would cost around 50€ to recover my files if possible, will see what will happen, I will keep you updated , thanks to all for the help
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 Post subject: Re: data recovery on external HDD after dd of iso image unde
PostPosted: November 19th, 2018, 16:23 
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hi again, so almost 90% of my data was recovered, even the directory structure and file names, just a slight problem with my photos and videos, they are in oddly named folders and they have several copies, and I will have to somehow figure out and sort, but nevertheless I am very happy with that data recovery company, they have done the job as expected and for less than expected as well, they offered me back up image of my data, so what else could I imagine


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