Is recovery practical in my case ?

Recuva
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Hi,

I just lost 2TB of stuff ..

I had my Hard disk connected to my router as a network drive. I use this to watch movies in iPad.

I was also experimenting with XBian OS for Raspberry Pi while my sis was watching some movie ..

so it was the ipad app or the Raspberry pi or the Router itself that did the deleting..

I dont think it was a hacker attack .. I have WPA2 Personal PSK AES encrypted Wifi network ... Nor was it a virus ..

All of a sudden all my stuff started disappearing from the main folder .. and by the time I switched off the hard disk most of it was wiped out .. only the software that came with the HDD was remaining.

I tried recuva it shows some 130k files.. I m pretty sure it had atleast 20X more ...

Plus most of the directory structure is lost...

My question is, IS it possible to recover this 2TB of data with directory structure ? I had waaaay too much stuff .. its impossible to manually try to rename it ..

is there anything I m missing.. ?

Has anyone been in this situation before ? How did you cope up with it .. ?

I m a 23 year old man and I m close to crying now .. :(

Games, software, os, books, documentries, anime, movies.. u name it I had it and now its all gone ... :( :(

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Firstly you have a couple of hurdles to over-come.

Recuva doesn’t support networked drives so you will need to remove the NAS hard drive and either connect it internally or via USB.

Then you have to get past whatever storage method was used by your NAS.

Almost all of them don't use FAT or NTFS and add to the mix, most have some sort of inbuilt mirroring if you have a multi-disk NAS.

Google your NAS drive (if you don't already know) and find out the file structure and formatting specs.

But to potentially get you started, I'd be looking to connect the removed drive onto a Lunix OS PC.

And the best way for that if you don't have access to one is to make a bootable USB with a Linux distro like Mint or Puppy or any of the dozen or so variants.