Accidental part-format of an external 2TB Seagate HDD - How to recover data?

Asked Nov 02 '19 at 12:01

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I accidentally started to write to my Seagate 2TB HDD. I now find it doesn't mount though it does show up on gparted, Partition - Unallocated, File System - Unallocated, Size - 1.82TB

BTW I have downloaded and made bootable disks of Knoppix 7, Systemrescue 6.0.3,and GParted Live but am not having much, in fact any, success so far. How can I mount the drive and hopefully recover the data?

asked Nov 02 '19 at 12:01

user279131

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Possible duplicate of Recovering broken or deleted NTFS partitions and How do I recover my accidentally lost Windows partitions after installing Ubuntu? – karel Nov 02 '19 at 12:03
It reads like you've overwritten (via format) the partition table, meaning there's nothing to mount. The data on the drives (some or most of it) may exist, but you'll need to re-create your partition table which is a long process covered in the duplicate links (and not just a mount & cp of files; backups exist for that purpose). – guiverc Nov 02 '19 at 12:43
I have a very similar situation and want to use chkdsk as suggested in a previous post but get 'E: Unable to locate package chkdsk' – user279131 Nov 05 '19 at 14:30

Accidental part-format of an external 2TB Seagate HDD - How to recover data?

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