Hello,
Before I explain, please understand I am using a 240gb SSD as my bootable drive with Windows 10, and a 1TB HDD that stores all my data.
I recently encountered an issue with Windows 10 where it would not load, went through all the troubleshooting methods I could do, whatever, so I formatted my SSD (which is fine, no data I need is on there), and reinstalled Windows 10. I wanted to delete all extra partitions that I didn't need, so I removed all the ones associated with the SSD, and a 499mb partition that was associated with my 1TB drive. The 499mb partition was something else, it doesn't have the data I need.
So I installed Windows 10, set up everything, all good, but I noticed the 499mb partition was active and wanted to extend it on my 1TB drive. I went to disk management and attempted such, but I could not do so without deleting the partition. So I made sure I selected the right one (the 499mb partition), deleted, and boom, whole disk was deleted. My mistake, I should have paid attention to what I was doing. But now I've lost everything that is important, thousands of hours of work, and all my images and videos from my trips among other things.
What makes matters worse is that I freaked out, and reinitialized the drive. I realize now that this could have affected the data. And since I had setup Windows to write my Desktop, Documents, Downloads folder, to the 1TB hdd, it wrote over about 10mb of data automatically. I stopped and undid everything in Windows and removed all write permissions to the hard drive for all users.
I figured this wouldn't be too hard to recover, what matters most is that I can get the core files back related to work and my trips. I used EaseUS Recovery software to attempt this, (as well as some other software but this is the one I actually used to run the whole thing). It built the directories and all that, it looks good, but the only things that come up are my past systems on this hard drive. I had Windows 7 and Windows 8 on it previously. I cannot find my data for my current Windows 10 system. I'm still looking through this as there is a lot of data, but now I'm running Unformat on the system, but I'm not sure what else to do if this doesn't work. I could take it to a recovery professional, but I don't have too much money to get this done right. I'm a student right now but I have some clients I provide computer services for (lol) and another job at a small company part time.
So this leads me to my question. How can I recover my data most effectively? Is there any software that I can use that can recover data from my most recent OS? Although initializing the drive and writing a small amount of data to it could affect my data, I should be able to recover everything mostly? Right? Is there a way to recover the data from this drive while keeping the directories intact? Any sort of assistance with pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated. The data on this hard drive is very important. I plan to take greater measures to prevent this from happening again using backups.
Here are some images below. The "cannot read" sectors that unformat is showing is very concerning. Also the EaseUS is shows about 6TB of recoverable data. I believe the raw files folder is the reason for this as it's just the same thing but without directories included. Also when recovering data, most of it was corrupted or could not be opened in Windows. This was data from partition 1.
EaseUS:
Unformat Part 1:
Unformat Part 2:
Unformat Part 3:
Again I'm not sure what the best way is to recover this data. It seems like it should be easy but so far it has proven otherwise.
Thank you for any help.
Before I explain, please understand I am using a 240gb SSD as my bootable drive with Windows 10, and a 1TB HDD that stores all my data.
I recently encountered an issue with Windows 10 where it would not load, went through all the troubleshooting methods I could do, whatever, so I formatted my SSD (which is fine, no data I need is on there), and reinstalled Windows 10. I wanted to delete all extra partitions that I didn't need, so I removed all the ones associated with the SSD, and a 499mb partition that was associated with my 1TB drive. The 499mb partition was something else, it doesn't have the data I need.
So I installed Windows 10, set up everything, all good, but I noticed the 499mb partition was active and wanted to extend it on my 1TB drive. I went to disk management and attempted such, but I could not do so without deleting the partition. So I made sure I selected the right one (the 499mb partition), deleted, and boom, whole disk was deleted. My mistake, I should have paid attention to what I was doing. But now I've lost everything that is important, thousands of hours of work, and all my images and videos from my trips among other things.
What makes matters worse is that I freaked out, and reinitialized the drive. I realize now that this could have affected the data. And since I had setup Windows to write my Desktop, Documents, Downloads folder, to the 1TB hdd, it wrote over about 10mb of data automatically. I stopped and undid everything in Windows and removed all write permissions to the hard drive for all users.
I figured this wouldn't be too hard to recover, what matters most is that I can get the core files back related to work and my trips. I used EaseUS Recovery software to attempt this, (as well as some other software but this is the one I actually used to run the whole thing). It built the directories and all that, it looks good, but the only things that come up are my past systems on this hard drive. I had Windows 7 and Windows 8 on it previously. I cannot find my data for my current Windows 10 system. I'm still looking through this as there is a lot of data, but now I'm running Unformat on the system, but I'm not sure what else to do if this doesn't work. I could take it to a recovery professional, but I don't have too much money to get this done right. I'm a student right now but I have some clients I provide computer services for (lol) and another job at a small company part time.
So this leads me to my question. How can I recover my data most effectively? Is there any software that I can use that can recover data from my most recent OS? Although initializing the drive and writing a small amount of data to it could affect my data, I should be able to recover everything mostly? Right? Is there a way to recover the data from this drive while keeping the directories intact? Any sort of assistance with pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated. The data on this hard drive is very important. I plan to take greater measures to prevent this from happening again using backups.
Here are some images below. The "cannot read" sectors that unformat is showing is very concerning. Also the EaseUS is shows about 6TB of recoverable data. I believe the raw files folder is the reason for this as it's just the same thing but without directories included. Also when recovering data, most of it was corrupted or could not be opened in Windows. This was data from partition 1.
EaseUS:
Unformat Part 1:
Unformat Part 2:
Unformat Part 3:
Again I'm not sure what the best way is to recover this data. It seems like it should be easy but so far it has proven otherwise.
Thank you for any help.
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