Accidentally wrote wrong image to HDD :oops:

[Jr23Smithy]

I should have been a bit more patient with my existing fault, but it was the end of the day and I was impatient. My computer wasn't booting up correctly as it had black screen white writing and something to do with "Watchdog" and "Phase 1 & 2", well that's not the problem anymore.

I have a Samsung RF511 and followed the recovery options. I did a basic recovery that doesn't change much but didn't do anything, so I decided to carry out a full recovery. Unfortunately, I didn't realise the image I was rewriting to the partition was from 2007, so I have lost all data (fortunately I have the majority of my important data on another partition), but not everything.

Is there a way I can retrieve the data I have written over? It would mainly be "Users" for desktop saved items and "program files & x86".

I have already used:
Recuva: Deep Scan - Didn't find much
ParetoLogic: Quick Scan - Keeps running out of memory, but it does pick up some files from previous dates.
Teskdisk-7.0: It can't find a partition after "analyse" to carry out a deep scan.

Would be able to advise please.

Jr23Smithy

p.s: system details attached

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System I am using to access HDD

[MindMergepk]

if data is over written there is not much you can do, give a try to r-studio and see if it gives you better results. Generally overwritten data is not recoverable.

good luck.

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hi,
Assuming You have a 500 gb hdd for example and you have partitioned it into three parts drive c 100gb , drive d 200gb and drive e 200gb,Assuming you have overwritten with a image just the initial partition which is drive c that you can still try and recover using raw signature method called data carving .The other 2 partitions that are not touched can be recovered 100% ,But if the image you used wrong from sector 0 to end sector then nothing can be done brother