Ex. Harddrive overwritten lost 2TB data

[Hichaos]

Hey guys i lost 1.863,01 gb.

I wanted to reinstall my win10 so i accedently Made my 2tb drive a Boot drive for the Installation. I used the media creation programme of Microsoft.

I tryed some recovery programs but all started as cost free and went like 50€ + after scanning. Is there a way to get my data back without paying 50€ ?

The HDD isnt visible in the explorer only if I check it via cmd or the harddrive partition program of win10. I tryed a method with disk part but it didn’t work because I had no volume to assign the partition to.

You already know I’m not really well known with this harddrive xxxx and my english could be better. If you need anymore information I’m ready to answer.

[phillpower2]

Welcome to PCHF Hichaos,

Give Recuva free a try, download from here

If no luck with Recuva you could try a live Linux distro, we can provide the steps for this should you need them.

[Hichaos]

Ill try recurve first and tell you how it went

[Hichaos]

I encountered a problem my explorer doesn’t find that external hdd same with recuva so I can search directly and if I search for my whole PC he has 7 disks but after 3 and 6 he doesn’t search the 7 and 7 is the ex hdd I think

[Hichaos]

In the device manager he finds the ex hdd too

[phillpower2]

We could do with an expanded screenshot of Disk Manager.

Access Disk Management via Run.

Press the Windows+R keys to open Run, type diskmgmt.msc in the empty box then press OK.

To capture and post a screenshot;

Click on the ALT key + PRT SCR key..its on the top row..right hand side..now click on start…all programs…accessories…paint…left click in the white area …press CTRL + V…click on file…click on save…save it to your desktop…name it something related to the screen your capturing… BE SURE TO SAVE IT AS A .JPG …otherwise it may be to big to upload… after typing in any response you have… click on Upload a File to add the screenshot.

Screenshot instructions are provided to assist those that may read this topic but are not yet aware of the “how to”.

[Hichaos]

As i sad the disk isnt showing there, but its visible with cmd diskpart.

Currently im running recuva in deep mode just to see if the disk is found there but i cant select the 7 disk so i need to run it over multiple disk ( i could just unplug the disks >:> but then i need to turn off pc open it etc. and im still able to do **** i need to do since as you can see i have enough other disks)

Still the files on this 2 Tb disk are important to me^^

[Hichaos]

ah wait i chnged a setting to see disk not volume and there i see it

[Hichaos]

is it possible to make a new volume without format the disk and will the data then not be overwritten by creating a new partition and then i can run recuva to recover the data ? is that possible?

[phillpower2]

Apologies for the delay getting back to you, had a busy couple of work days

Your English is far better than my German but what I can see and understand from a couple of your screenshots is that this external USB HDD has 1863GB of free space on it that are shown by DISKPART to be dirty and by Disk Manager to be not assigned, the latter you can address by following the steps here but being defined as both dirty and free space I will be honest and advise you to expect the worst.

Let us know if you would like the Puppy Linux guide to attempt to access the drive, I will not post it unless you ask as the info is quite a chunk to follow.

[Hichaos]

As you can see in the screenshot no option to assign a letter. I need to ask a question about Linux part it sound like a operating system and i never had linux will linux just read the disk waht are the chance linux will help in my situation? Im quick tired of trying to fix my ex hddd tbh.

Lets be short and give me the guide for puppy linux maybe it helps if it doesnt work i give up on the data and live on xD

[phillpower2]

Did you right click in the space beneath the black bar where it says 1863.01 GB Not assigned.

Puppy Linux uses the RAM to boot and does not require any installation to a storage device, there are two options to choose from, burn to disk and save to a USB thumbdrive, it will only cost you your time and any blank disk or thumbdrive should you need to purchase either to be able to proceed.

Please do not feel obliged to follow any steps that may be suggested here but keep in mind that our help is offered for free whereas a data recovery service that while costing a small fortune will not give you any guarantee of recovering anything at all from the drive.

[Hichaos]

Gotte buy a disk or a thumbdrive, but cant til tomorrow, i will replay again after i bought it. Any size recomment ? 8gb 16 gb 32 gb ?

[phillpower2]

Did you right click in the space beneath the black bar where it says 1863.01 GB Not assigned.

Can you also answer the above for us.

If your computer has a disk burner I suggest you use the disk method as you may need to disable secure boot for the computer to be able to boot from a USB device, this can sometimes be problematic whereas booting from the optical drive is straight forward, the blank disk only needs to be the CD type.

[Hichaos]

Jeah i did ^^