Hi there! I need some help. A few months ago, I accidentally quick-formatted my external hard drive with a lot of files/file folders that were placed in the recycle bin. I am not a computer person and I have a ton of respect to those who know a lot about them. Also, I am new here so I am still trying to figure out all of the controls.
>>1578394Why just now if it's been months? Depending on usage a lot will have been overwritten.
>>1578396Well, in the time since the format happened and now, I just haven't been using the drive at all. I tried various recovery tools on my C: drive but I just can't seem to access the data.
Sounds like you stole it to access data you’re not supposed to.
>>1578400I've had my external hard drive for about a year now since I bought it for my laptop. It's a 2TB WD Elements portable external hard drive, and I just don't know enough about computers and code to figure this stuff out on my own.
>>1578394Buy yourself a new drive double the size of your disk, in this case you'd like a 4tbDownload HDD Raw Copy https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/Using this tool create a DD style image of your drive, be sure to follow a guide. If you use this tool wrong you could nuke some unrelated drive, here's a random guidehttps://aeroquartet.com/treasured/hddguru.en.htmlNow all recovery attempts will be done on your HDD image. Try out whatever programs you can figure out, stuff like DiskGenius, PhotoRec, Recuva, EaseUS, Disk Drill or whatever
