Is it possible to recover data after reformatting from NTFS to Ext4?

Question

NTFS

The situation is such that the wrong HDD was given to restore the backup of another machine. As a result, I need to recover data from an HDD that previously had NTFS, and now Ext4 with a bunch of new data. Is it even possible?

Answer 1

Unlikely. I suggest contacting companies that are serious about data recovery. Perhaps something will be pulled out ...

Answer 2

If you reformat the partition back to NTFS, and then run a sector-by-sector scan, you can recover the data.
For example, the eSupport Undelete Plus utility in RawScan mode with maximum quality can help you.
I'll just warn you right now: it's quite long. A 2TB partition is scanned for about 6 hours somewhere.

Answer 3

If you just reformatted and didn't record anything, try R-Studio. It helped me in this case, only I also created partitions and resized them until I calmed down and remembered the data on the screw.

Answer 4

Runtime GetDataBack still try it helped out more than once, restored ~ 80% of the information after formatting and installing XP on top. But that's how lucky.

Answer 5

there was a similar situation, only the data on ext4 was slightly
restored by the DMDE program, with its help I found the NTFS partition and restored the information
, use programs not to search for files, but to search for partitions, it all depends only on the amount of information recorded after formatting in ext4, most importantly, so that formatting is quick, and not complete
, someone here wrote that you need to format it back to NTFS, this is a very angry person) never write data if you want to pull out information