How do I recover lost data from my HDD?

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okaywhynot

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I accidentally turned my 1TB Seagate External Hard Disk into a recovery drive for my Windows 10 OS. Immediately upon realising what I had done, I disconnected within 2 minutes from initiation of process. However, when I tried connecting my HDD to my laptop/other laptops, I could not see my old files, and the disk had been renamed to 'Recovery', showing only 31 GB of total space. I tried changing the file system from FAT32 to NTFS, but that did not help. I am sure two minutes cannot be enough to delete all my files. Besides, I downloaded Ease US Recovery software which allows free recovery up to 1 GB, and it did indeed list a lot of my 'lost' files.
I shall be highly obliged if you run me through the process that I ought to follow.
 
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D_Know_WD

D_Know_WD

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Hi there okaywhynot,

I would agree with BadActor. The tool should do the job, as long as the data is not overwritten. Keep in mind that some of it may be unrecoverable.
Another thing you should consider is to save all the recovered data on another location, so you don't overwrite the data further.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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