SSD hard drive, deleted and quick formatted volumes

jumanji said:

There is something strange here. If you had specified LBA range 3000 to 410000 to scan, why is it showing the partition starting at 2048??????

Can you please repeat? This time post the screenshot of scan range settings where you had fixed the range ( the same window I had posted in post #17) and the resulting Found partitions Window after the range is scanned.

Note: I am now running TestDisk on my trial HDD and again it may take sometime to finish. So I will return again to this thread only after I had formulated the next strategy and tried it myself under simulated conditions.

After posting the above information, you may download TestDisk 7.0 ( Windows) ( and not the beta version 7.1) from TestDisk Download - CGSecurity extract it to your C: drive and keep it.

About your first queation i have no idea, i'm not an expert in this field however mostly i solve my pc's problems based on my experiences.

I did it again and attached 3 screenshots, the first one is the default settings of partition recovery.

meanwhile i've downloaded testdisk.

By default PhotoRec will save the files to a folder recup_dir.1 in the TestDisk-7.0 folder.

It would be better if you create a folder named Recovery in another external drive with adequate space. Keep this external drive plugged in before you start photorec_win.exe. When it asks you for the destination drive where files are to be copied, navigate to this external drive folder Recovery and then copy into it.

jumanji said:

Continuing ... ( I want to finish it before I go to bed so that I can sleep peacefully :))

2. The second screen will show the current single partition in your 250GB SSD highlighted. [Search] command is highlighted. Press Enter.

3."Other" is highlighted. ( If not, using the Up/Down arrow keys highlight it.) Press Enter

4. With Down arrow key select (highlight) " Whole" to search the whole disk and press Enter.

5. Here by default the testdisk folder will be shown as the destination. Press the left arrow key ( if necessary repeatedly) to show all the drives.

6. With the Up/down arrow keys select the destination drive letter you had noted in screen 1. Press Enter

7. You have arrived at your destination. Make sure you have arrived at
Directory <drive letter: >\Recovery ( You may also see my post here on copying files - screenshot seven onwards: https://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/286181-my-external-hard-drive-suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385 )

Press C
Copying the files starts.

Note: We have already found that the Volume Boot records of the Second and third partitions have been wiped out. That shouldn't happen with a quick format. Neither will it wipe out the data. This is an attempt to see whether the data exists. If the data also has been wiped out, there will be no files to copy.

But sometimes PhotoRec also may fail to find the data even if it exists in which case the author recommends the commercial software Getdataback. We shall run the free demo version and check whether it shows your data.

In case PhotoRec and also Getdataback do not find any data, we can also use a sector Editor ( I use bootice) to roll through all the sectors in the SSD to find whether it is really populated with data or it has been wiped out..

Anyway let us hope for the best.

Hi dear Jumanji

first of all thank you for your effort.

I did all steps as you've written, but at the destination folder selecting i can't see my destination external hard drive. Also right or left arrow key's are moving inside my D drive.

I attached the step by steps screenshots to see if i've done anything wrong.

regards

henrikkhach said:

jumanji said:

Continuing ... ( I want to finish it before I go to bed so that I can sleep peacefully :))

2. The second screen will show the current single partition in your 250GB SSD highlighted. [Search] command is highlighted. Press Enter.

3."Other" is highlighted. ( If not, using the Up/Down arrow keys highlight it.) Press Enter

4. With Down arrow key select (highlight) " Whole" to search the whole disk and press Enter.

5. Here by default the testdisk folder will be shown as the destination. Press the left arrow key ( if necessary repeatedly) to show all the drives.

6. With the Up/down arrow keys select the destination drive letter you had noted in screen 1. Press Enter

7. You have arrived at your destination. Make sure you have arrived at
Directory <drive letter: >\Recovery ( You may also see my post here on copying files - screenshot seven onwards: https://www.sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/286181-my-external-hard-drive-suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385 )

Press C
Copying the files starts.

Note: We have already found that the Volume Boot records of the Second and third partitions have been wiped out. That shouldn't happen with a quick format. Neither will it wipe out the data. This is an attempt to see whether the data exists. If the data also has been wiped out, there will be no files to copy.

But sometimes PhotoRec also may fail to find the data even if it exists in which case the author recommends the commercial software Getdataback. We shall run the free demo version and check whether it shows your data.

In case PhotoRec and also Getdataback do not find any data, we can also use a sector Editor ( I use bootice) to roll through all the sectors in the SSD to find whether it is really populated with data or it has been wiped out..

Anyway let us hope for the best.

Hi dear Jumanji

first of all thank you for your effort.

I did all steps as you've written, but at the destination folder selecting i can't see my destination external hard drive. Also right or left arrow key's are moving inside my D drive.

I attached the step by steps screenshots to see if i've done anything wrong.

regards

Ok i solved it by putting TESTDISK folder inside my destination external drive.

I'll sen you the results as soon as it finished.

thanks

It's doing it's job

and finally the result: nothing found
it created an xml file that i'll attache to this post.



report.rar

You have misfired :). ( Perhaps my instructions were not very clear.) Not to worry.

In the second screenshot you put, you should not select the No partition line. By default the second line which reads "1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33......." would have been highlighted. If not highlighted by default, press the down arrow key to highlight that second line which shows the single partition and press enter to [Search]
{"2. The second screen will show the current single partition in your 250GB SSD highlighted. [Search] command is highlighted. Press Enter."}

Then
"3."Other" is highlighted. ( If not, using the Up/Down arrow keys highlight it.) Press Enter

4. With Down arrow key select (highlight) " Whole" to search the whole disk and press Enter."

Perhaps I should have put the whole sequence in screenshots but I didn't have the time and patience to do it. May be I know pretty well that even if you make mistakes, it is not going to affect anything. :)

When you come to the last screen showing the default destination TestDisk folder, press the left arrow key which will take you one level above. If it does not show all your drives press the left arrow key once again. If needed repeat this till the screen shows all your drives. Then select drive J: That was the partition in your 1TB destination drive as shown in the first screenshot. ( When you rerun PhotoRec, please note the drive letter of your 1TB destination drive. It can be different)

Anyway see what happens in the current run. If it does not find any of your files, rerun PhotoRec adhering the above instructions. ( As I see it may take 10 hours but if it is seeing any files you should be getting to know how many files it has recovered. If you want you can stop it, close it and then run it again.

If PhotoRec asks whether it should continue from where it left say no and it will start from the beginning.

Edit: As I see it hasn't found any files. Rerun PhotoRec as per the instructions above.

Read my previous post which crossed.