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CamiKaze

CamiKaze

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What is the best application to recover data from a formatted drive?

I did a very stupid thing by taking my drives (formatted in ext4) from my CentOS 7 box and plugged it into my Windows 10 box.
It didn't recognise the format of the 2 drives and through Disk Management, I decided to convert the disk to a Dynamic Disk, or something.

My drives did not open in Windows, I plugged it back into my CentOS 7 box and my drives were missing. I eventually located it as SDB1 and SDC1 but for some reason I could not get into the drives.

After countless hours of messing around, I did a quick format and hoped that you guys can help me find the best software to recover data to a now NTFS formatted drive.

/My whole life has been formatted away. :cry:
 
Take it to Tecleo in Centurion. We send all our drives there
 
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You should try Restorer Ultimate.

Works very well. Used many times for drive & partition recoveries.

Then also Southbit for professional recovery service or Tecleo as mentioned. Southbit comes highly recommended. Tecleo had previously failed on an attempted recovery, but they were professional.
 
CamiKaze said:
What is the best application to recover data from a formatted drive?

I did a very stupid thing by taking my drives (formatted in ext4) from my CentOS 7 box and plugged it into my Windows 10 box.
It didn't recognise the format of the 2 drives and through Disk Management, I decided to convert the disk to a Dynamic Disk, or something.

My drives did not open in Windows, I plugged it back into my CentOS 7 box and my drives were missing. I eventually located it as SDB1 and SDC1 but for some reason I could not get into the drives.

After countless hours of messing around, I did a quick format and hoped that you guys can help me find the best software to recover data to a now NTFS formatted drive.

/My whole life has been formatted away. :cry:
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I've had luck with RAISE.
 
This is R Studio.
I ran this over night.
What do I do now?

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SouthBit said:
Pop us a mail if you don't come right. :)

service [at] southbit.co.za
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I have 2 2TB drives that got fscked. Would you be able to recover the files in exactly the same way that it was left? as in folder names and files?
 
CamiKaze said:
This is R Studio.
I ran this over night.
What do I do now?

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If you aren't going to lay down bucks for a recovery,you can open the EXT4 1.82TB filesystem and see what you can read there
 
PsyWulf said:
If you aren't going to lay down bucks for a recovery,you can open the EXT4 1.82TB filesystem and see what you can read there
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It's just recovering a million folders to another drive.
 
CamiKaze said:
In my earlier post I started that recovering data is only possible for ext versions up until ext2, not ext4.

I think that changing the disk to dynamic disk in Windows is what fscked my life up. That's why it didn't pick up in Linux again. Tried everything. Testdisk was useless.
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*Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.

So it should really be working, but ja it's not an intuitive program to use.
 
Aquadyne said:
You should try Restorer Ultimate.

Works very well. Used many times for drive & partition recoveries.

Then also Southbit for professional recovery service or Tecleo as mentioned. Southbit comes highly recommended. Tecleo had previously failed on an attempted recovery, but they were professional.
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I downloaded this last night. Did you actually buy the license?
I'll give it a go tonight because R-Studio got stuck on some file last night then the application failed to close... this is really pissing me off. :mad:
 
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