so I've been trying to go from AMD to Intel for a couple days now and one thing I tried so I can still use Windows 10 after I upgrade is installing Windows 10 from tool kit or whatever you call it from Microsoft (specifically for Windows installation) and I installed it on the external drive. I wonder if this was the first mistake I did. anyways afterwards the external drive's remaining space (over 700gb) becomes unallocated and the only accessible partition was the Windows installer. so I go and research about how to fix this and I tried partitionguru. I tried to restore data/files and took 12 hours before it finished and once it finished I looked at the files it recovered and it wasn't even anything that was in the drive before. so I saved it anyway but even before it finishes saving it crashed. so the drive became unrecognizable but I fixed it, just assigned a letter to it but now the problem is all the files are gone. is there in any way, whatever it takes me, to get all the files back??
Losing important files on external drive without formatting
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1. "A blank USB flash drive or DVD (and DVD burner) with at least 4 GB of space if you want to create media. We recommend using a blank USB or blank DVD, because any content on it will be deleted."
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3. When trying to recover files like that, you must recover them to a whole different drive.
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3. When trying to recover files like that, you must recover them to a whole different drive.
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1)you probably miss the big print telling your it will remove anything else on it when you create a media disk.
2)use data recovery like https://www.piriform.com/recuva . if you lucky most files will still be there.
2)use data recovery like https://www.piriform.com/recuva . if you lucky most files will still be there.
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1. "A blank USB flash drive or DVD (and DVD burner) with at least 4 GB of space if you want to create media. We recommend using a blank USB or blank DVD, because any content on it will be deleted."
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3. When trying to recover files like that, you must recover them to a whole different drive.
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3. When trying to recover files like that, you must recover them to a whole different drive.
USAFRet :
1. "A blank USB flash drive or DVD (and DVD burner) with at least 4 GB of space if you want to create media. We recommend using a blank USB or blank DVD, because any content on it will be deleted."
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3. When trying to recover files like that, you must recover them to a whole different drive.
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3. When trying to recover files like that, you must recover them to a whole different drive.
damn I did miss that. I was too urged to upgrade my pc and just clicked next and next. I'm still waiting for PartitionGuru to finish recovering files but what did you mean by recover them to a whole different drive? If I do recover them save them to a different drive?
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Once it 'finds' things, they need to be saved to a whole different drive. Probably.
And the guy at Microsoft who wrote that dialog box is pissed at you. He got paid good money to warn you, and you just blew all his hard work right out the window.
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