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Accidentally formattet SSD containing NTFS partition to ext4
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Author:  inckie [ May 27th, 2014, 22:57 ]
Post subject:  Accidentally formattet SSD containing NTFS partition to ext4
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
Image

I do not have much experience with data recovery at all
Author:  hhddrec [ May 28th, 2014, 10:22 ]
Post subject:  Re: Accidentally formattet SSD containing NTFS partition to
If R-Studio has scaned all image file, then the image file not contains data.
Author:  michael chiklis [ May 29th, 2014, 10:05 ]
Post subject:  Re: Accidentally formattet SSD containing NTFS partition to
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)
Author:  Dmitri [ May 29th, 2014, 23:18 ]
Post subject:  Re: Recover SSD NTFS partition formatted to ext4
inckie wrote:
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
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