#HDD formated loss of content

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Guys i had a external usb HDD i was using on my pc and i accidentaly made a windows reinstall tool to use for reinstalling windows through it but now the drive is small and my files are gone
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its got like 1.5tb of photos on it

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Whats something reliable and WILL work

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please

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keep in mind the data has been over written somewhat

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what i would suggest is making a disk image in case any recovery attempt only does more harm

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disk drill

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jeff managed to do a dumb move too and deleted something he did not want to
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/recovering-videos-my-sony-camera-i-stupidly-deleted/

Jeff Geerling
Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted

My normal process for transferring video footage from my Sony cameras to my computer is as follows:
Run a sonydump script that copies all video files from my SD card to my local computer, then runs rm *.MP4 in the folder on the SD card, and ejects it. I copy the files onto my NAS, which has an hourly ZFS snapshot and also backs up that snapshot ...

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also PLEAS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 3 2 1

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tbh do 3 extra backups

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also its like 1 tb of photos and files..

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😭

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2 4TB disks and some old ass work station is like what 300-400$ or you can go the monthly like 10-20$ for a 1TB+ on most cloud providers

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first of all do a disk image

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what it does is look at all the bits on the HDD and copy them just as they are and if a data recovery program damages the data while trying to retrieve it you are not fully f-ed as you still have the old image of the disk, then try to use disk drill and see how much data you might be able to recover and when you have done that store them on 3 different disks best to put them in a NAS and at least one of those is in a different house or the cloud.

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or is it a windows setting?

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use clonezilla to make it

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tbh i would suggest just taking this to a known good data recovery firm

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i thought you said you did not care about the price

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anyhow not much can be done about it

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there all like 600+

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too bad

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yo you got like no remorse bro damn

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😂

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i have 3 different servers backing up anything remotely important

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