Accidentally formattet SSD containing NTFS partition to ext4

[inckie]

Hi, I friend of mine accidentally formattet his SSD disk which containing a NTFS partition and changed the new file system to ext4

He said he didn't use any low level formatting techniques and the formatting process finished quickly.

I got an image of the entire disk created with TestDisk which I has been messing around with using various data recovery tools.

However, no one have been able to return ANY files.

I this case i opened the .dd file with R-Studio and ran the scan process, and it only see an ext4 file system with only lost+found folder


I do not have much experience with data recovery at all

[hhddrec]

If R-Studio has scaned all image file, then the image file not contains data.

[michael chiklis]

Try to image the SSD disk with r-studio, not with testdisk.
Then work with r-studio image, if you still don't see any folders inside the image try to build regions in r-studio (if you know how)

[Dmitri]

friend of mine accidentally formattet his SSD disk which containing a NTFS partition and changed the new file system to ext4

I suggest we declare May as Month of Unconscious NTFS -> Ext Migration on HDDGuru:

http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28547#p196563
http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=28725#p197793