[Recuva recovery from unallocated HD space?]

Seems it can not do what I want

[Recuva recovery from Lost Partitions]

I wanted to upgrade my win 7 to win 10 due to the support issue of microsoft. I have  a 2TB external drive connected with ALL my backup info. Unfortunately when the upgrade requested a target to save the win 10 ISO file, I directed it to the External drive.

The whole External Drive was overwritten with the ISO file and my backup info gone. I have scanned the drive with EaseUs, but it does not give the folders. It did find the files though, but it would be a major task to sift through all the data to try and recover the files.

The External Drive was previously Drive "i" now it is "g" with the windows 10 iso file.

I have downloaded recoverit, which shows folders although the folders are not properly organised.

Now I am busy scanning with Minitool as well as Recuva.

I have not purchased any of these software yet. I first want to see whether it can do what I want it to do.

Will Recuva be able to recover the files on the lost partition in folders as recoverit does?

I first posted this as a reply, https://forum.piriform.com/topic/56407-recuva-recovery-from-unallocated-hd-space/

but thought it would not be noticed and therefore I opened a new post here

[Recuva recovery from unallocated HD space?]

On 25/12/2019 at 10:26, Stonefeather said:

I have a one TB external hard drive, originally formatted with FAT32, which I accidentally installed a Windows 10 Recovery Drive onto (I had meant to use a 16 GB thumb drive that I also had attached). This ran a format on the drive, but only set up a 32 GB FAT32 partition to use for the Recovery Drive, leaving the rest of the space unallocated. I was able, I think, to find and select this latter in the list of drives to scan with Recuva, but when I tried it, I got a message saying that it could not be scanned because Recuva was unable to determine its file system. Is there any way to tell Recuva that this unallocated space was originally FAT 32, so that it can do a deep scan, as it would with an entirely formatted drive?

I have nearly the same problem apart from that I wanted to upgrade my win 7 to win 10 due to the support issue of microsoft. I have  a 2TB external drive connected with ALL my backup info. Unfortunately when the upgrade requested a target to save the win 10 ISO file, I directed it to the External drive.

The whole External Drive was overwritten with the ISO file and my backup info gone. I have scanned the drive with EaseUs, but it does not give the folders. It did find the files though, but it would be a major task to sift through all the data to try and recover the files.

 

The External Drive was previously Drive "i" now it is "g" with the windows 10 iso file.

I have downloaded recoverit, which shows folders although the folders are not properly organised.

 

Now I am busy scanning with Minitool as well as Recuva.

I have not purchased any of these software yet. I first want to see whether it can do what I want it to do.

Will Recuva be able to recover the files on the lost partition in folders as recoverit does?

Regards

Kobus