Amature Data Backup mistake... Help me?

Matt_matrix

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I made a simple But Hyper catastrophic mistake... let me elaborate further on my situation. im very paranoid when it comes to backing up data; as i've lost entire boot disks chalked full of important data before (cramming everything into one large drive; and expecting not to lose everything because i didn't know any better.)

so i was doing what is technically poorly thought out data archiving and backup by making copies of everything on two drives... On a off sense (random Gut feeling) that something bad was to happen; so i decided to back up my boot disk.
i was going to attempt to make a clone of my SSD boot drive with in macrium reflect. id had a busy day that day (yesterday); i was tired and my judgement was impaired; first off I shrank the lone 1.8 tb Partition in My 2tb drive and elected to make a copy of my 220 Gb SSD Boot disks partition(i had a disk dedicated specifically towards this task, but it failed earlier in the month; but i haven't replaced it yet).

this Wouldn't have been a problem if i had done it the way i intended. Instead of simply copying the partition i wrote over the partition in macrum. it even warned me of what i was doing with a prompt that stated "warning, this process will rewrite the partition table on the drive" or something similar, like a tired baffoon i glanced at it reading it but not mentally processing the content of its warning until i was About %20 through the process.

i of course panicked and went into a slight frenzy; and proceeded to stop macrum right then and there. (witch likely did more damage than good) as you could guess my data was scrambled; as i basically copied over the existing data partially; Destroying the Mbr (if thats what its called) and replacing it partially with a new one. you probably know where i'm going with this.

I then elected to use testdisk 7.0 to attempt to recover my Partition knowing partially what i was doing i was able to mount it as a RAW Partition. I am now using Easeus to scan my disk (it will likely only let me recover a few MB's of data free of charge..." Id like to get as much a possible off of my drive, but i will settle for just getting a few select docx files that are important to me as i understand i likely compromised and corrupted at least %75 of my files...

Can anyone give me some advice with my data recovery process. I'm open to any suggestion at this point.