Cliffg Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I am new to forum and would like to ask or some advice. I have an external 3TB hard drive that was formatted as NTFS. I accidentally copied a Windows 8 recovery partition to this drive and as part of the process it reformantted it is FAT32. Obviously I cannot see any of the previous data. Should it be possible to recover some of this data and if so would I need to format the drive again to NTFS? Thanks for any advice. Cliff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan_B Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I am fairly certain that you need to supply very much more information. I screen shot showing all details visible in Windows Disk Management would be very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedro30 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Hello Cliffg. I am not a data recovery expert, but i exposed your case to a college of mine who works and specializes in data recovery. I won t guarantee you that he is 100% right, but he told me that you really have 2 option: 1- you go to a specialized company and of corse, pay for them to recover your data; or; 2- you can use recuva, or really any othe similiar software to try to recover. This last one can really be a "Hail Mary", since there is really no 100% guarantee that you can recover all data and at what state the data well be. I am sorry but he didn t told me if you would have to reformatt to NTSF, maybe is not a very good professional???? I am sorry i couldn t be of more help. Maybe one of the forum more expert member can give you a better answer and hopefully a better alternative. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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