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Recover data from a diskpart > clean command
This must be my one time blunder but I did manage to clean my 2TB backup external HDD in an attempt to clean a pendrive to make a bootable pendrive for installing Windows 8.
Now the help file for the diskpart > clean command says only the MBR partitioning information and hidden sector information are overwritten. And I was able to realize what i did exactly after hitting the enter key on the clean command.
On master boot record (MBR) disks, only the MBR partitioning information and hidden sector information are overwritten. On GUID partition table (GPT) disks, the GPT partitioning information, including the Protective MBR, is overwritten. If the ALL parameter is not used, the first 1MB and the last 1MB of the disk are zeroed. This erases any disk formatting that had been previously applied to the disk. The disk's state after cleaning the disk is 'UNINITIALIZED'.
While I am aware of the fact that any data recovery is not 100%, still I am looking for a sure-shot way to recover the data as I don't have any other drive clone the disk as a way of backing it up. So I am in need of a way which has maximum chances of recovering the data.
Some facts about the state of the drive are as under
- I stopped exactly after hitting the clean command and no operation has been performed on the HDD after that.
- The HDD has no partitions on it i.e. its a 2TB single partition.
- I am running Windows 8.1 Pro
Is there any way I can recover my data?