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lost everything on my 2nd HDD

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  • i'm an idiot
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September 20, 2014 3:24:45 PM

Hi,
As I was installing steamos onto my computer I figured I would pull out my second HDD just incase something went wrong. Well low and behold when I pulled it out, steamos stopped installing so it seems it was installing on my second HDD. It was only installing for a very brief amount of time though. And now my second HDD (4 TB) is partitioned into 4 drives E: G: H: and I:.
Disk E: says it is 486MB and the others don't have a number at all beside them. Is there any way to get all my lost data back? Is the data deleted or is it still on there?
Please help, there was a LOT of stuff saved on there.

thanks.
Also, I know absolutely nothing about linux. I just really wanted to try steamos and this is what happened lmao

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September 22, 2014 6:28:11 AM

The good news is nearly all and possibly all your date is still there. When steam started installing it erased your partition table and installed a new one to accommodate it. Then it would start copying the files to install so the maximum you'd lose is where those files were written,

First, do not try and boot up that drive as you may overwrite something you don't want to, boot from an external drive or the other hard drive if there is an operating system there.

Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk can be installed on Windows if that is what you have ON THE OTHER drive. If not I would suggest that you install ubuntu or mint linux on a USB (there are USB installers that work with windows or you could burn the downloaded iso onto a dvd and use the startup creator that comes with them). Once you have that install testdisk.

Follow the instructions at the link and you'll get most, if not all, back.
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September 25, 2014 12:14:15 AM

stillblue said:
The good news is nearly all and possibly all your date is still there. When steam started installing it erased your partition table and installed a new one to accommodate it. Then it would start copying the files to install so the maximum you'd lose is where those files were written,

First, do not try and boot up that drive as you may overwrite something you don't want to, boot from an external drive or the other hard drive if there is an operating system there.

Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk can be installed on Windows if that is what you have ON THE OTHER drive. If not I would suggest that you install ubuntu or mint linux on a USB (there are USB installers that work with windows or you could burn the downloaded iso onto a dvd and use the startup creator that comes with them). Once you have that install testdisk.

Follow the instructions at the link and you'll get most, if not all, back.


Thanks. I got most of it back, just lost a few movies (as far as I can tell so far). I ended using a pay program. Wish I had seen your reply sooner lol. Oh well. Muchly appreciated though

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September 25, 2014 12:29:12 AM

well i'm trying a program called recuva. but before that you must buy this software.
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September 25, 2014 12:06:01 PM

PhilipBooth said:
well i'm trying a program called recuva. but before that you must buy this software.


Yeah, I tried that program as well. It didn't work for me. It was able to find a bunch of files but for some reason they were several TB's each so I couldn't do anything with them.
I tried another program called Recover My Files and like I mentioned before, I got most of my stuff back. Lost a few movies but all of my pictures are there so it turned out alright.
Also, with Revover My Files, you can download it first and see if it can find your lost files. If it does then you can buy it
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September 27, 2014 4:29:36 AM

You may still want to go ahead and run testdisk. Doesn't cost anything but a little time. Testdisk allows you to look at the files, a secondary part of testdisk is photorec which goes much deeper looking for lost files. Be advised if you use photorec to specify what type of file(s) you want it to look for, in your case .avi for example. What it outputs are the raw files usually without names but if you limit to avi it shouldn't be too hard to spot the ones you want.
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