Data Recovery after using diskpart clean command

[Shadezzz]

jumanji Sir, do you follow? i'm unable to choose external hdd recovery folder.

 

[jumanji]

You had downloaded TestDisk. You had extracted the testdisk-7.0.win.zip.

Where did you extract it? I have extracted it to the root of the C: drive



Where is your testdisk-7.0 folder?

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji Yes sir to the root of C: Drive.

 

[jumanji]

OK. Post screen 1, 6 Showing your D drive, 8 where you highlighted [Whole] and then screen 9.

Post those and I shall see it tomorrow morning.

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji
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[Shadezzz]

jumanji, Sir keep in mind that i was able to recover some files and i was able to view some more using EaseUS Partition Recovery Program..Even i found some Microsoft Word & Excel files with their original names and i found some documents regarding games previously installed and a HD movie with full size as before formatting ...That's what gives me hope that at least some files are there and with the right procedure i can recover most of my important files...

 

[jumanji]

If you are able to recover more files using EaseUs, do it. In data recovery you should always grab the files if shown at the first instance.​

As far as PhotoRec is concerned, when you highlight [Whole] and press enter it should take you to the default location Directory C: \testdisk-7.0 From there you should be able to navigate to the Destination directory by using the arrow keys.( you can try all the arrow keys for whether it is the left key or right key or the UP /down key may depend on the Keyboard configuration) Why is it showing just Directory \ issomething which I cannot decipher.​

Please do a clean up and then run PhotoRec from a fresh install of TestDisk.

Check your current TestDisk folder and all the sub-folders in it to see whether it has any recovered file/s. If there is any, copy those elsewhere ( but not to your D: drive). Then delete the testdisk-7.0 folder. Extract the testdisk-7.0.win.zip again to the root directory of your C: drive. You now have a clean copy of TestDisk. Run PhotoRec from this fresh install and check whether everything goes fine. It should show the default Destination Directory C: \testdisk-7.0 when you reach that screen.

( I see three or four folders named NTFS in your C: drive. What are those? Those are not normally seen in a fresh install of Windows )

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji Ok i'll do as you instructed and for those NTFS folders, they were created by the recovery program but i didn't copy any files to those folders..

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji Sir i deleted testdisk, did a cleanup, installed it again to the root of C: Drive and the problem is still there..I can't select my external HDD Recovery Folder, it only shows the contents of C: Drive..Any suggestions sir?
I began to lose hope

 

[RolandJS]

Can you select the external HD? Did you give that HD a unique name so that you are sure you are selecting the correct device?

 

[jumanji]

Are you sure you downloaded the 11.8MB testdisk-7.0.win.zip and not the 9.63MB testdisk-7.0.win64.zip? Please check.

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji You're correct sir. I had the 9.63 MB version of testdisk.I deleted it and downloaded the 11 MB version and i was able to select my External HDD Recovery Folder and the recovery is ongoing...I will post the results once it's finished..

 

[jumanji]

Good Lord ! Masha Allah ! I was almost at my wits' end and getting ready to throw up my hands too ( just as you were.).

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji Sir, same 66000 files were recovered, all of them are old data from 2012 and 2013 and no sign of my new data at all..I think after all this i won't be able to recover my lost data. Any more suggestions sir?!

 

[jumanji]

If you have any new data as you aver , those new data would have overwritten all your old data and you wouldn't be getting those old data.. So what it means now is there was no new data. You only have that old data in there which PhotoRec has fetched rather reconstructed.Nothing more can be done.

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[Shadezzz]

jumanji I totally trust you sir, what really confuses me is that some of the new data were shown while using EaseUS Recovery but that was a very small portion like only 5% percent of the whole data..I don't care about the movies, the games or any media files..I just care about office documents, images and other personal files which i think they are at most 20 GB. So, is there no other way?!!

 

[jumanji]

Not any I can think of.

Anyway you can try running Getdataback Simple free demo version, scan your D drive and check whether it shows any files. If it shows you can open and preview the files. Data Recovery Software Products - Runtime Software Products v3.12 8.80MB

 

[Shadezzz]

jumanji It didn't work sir, anyway thanks a lot for your help and support at least we tried but it didn't work out. I appreciate your efforts.

 

[jumanji]

We have in many cases - where Diskpart Clean was accidentally run on a wrong drive - recovered the whole drive back but in all those cases they did nothing further to the disk. In such a condition we can easily restore the drive by running the Partition Recovery Wizard, for a "diskpart clean" only zeroes sector 0 to 2047. The partition boot records at 2048 ( the first partition start point) and other partition boot records with all data will still be intact.

You made a monumental mistake by formatting and reinstalling Windows and creating a new volume D:

The new data which you are referring may perhaps be in the 150GB of your old D: drive which has now been gobbled up and merged into your C drive. Most of that data would have already been overwritten by Windows.

 

[Shadezzz]

We have in many cases - where Diskpart Clean was accidentally run on a wrong drive - recovered the whole drive back but in all those cases they did nothing further to the disk. In such a condition we can easily restore the drive by running the Partition Recovery Wizard, for a "diskpart clean" only zeroes sector 0 to 2047. The partition boot records at 2048 ( the first partition start point) and other partition boot records with all data will still be intact.

You made a monumental mistake by formatting and reinstalling Windows and creating a new volume D:

The new data which you are referring may perhaps be in the 150GB of your old D: drive which has now been gobbled up and merged into your C drive. Most of that data would have already been overwritten by Windows.

Yes i know i made a terrible mistake but at least it was undeliberately. I'll make sure this will never happen again and as for the lost data i shall create them again except for the images which is not a big issue. Again thanks a lot for your time and knowledge sir.