I executed badblocks -wsv on my windows partition to check for badblocks. I relatively quickly realized I executed it in destructive mode so I aborted the process and only ~3GB of the partition were wiped.
Is any data recovery still possible? There were mainly JPEGs and .docx documents i want to recover. How do I do that?
You can try with testdisk and photorec from cgsecurity.org.
I am afraid, that testdisk will have problems unless one partition starts after the wiped first 3 GB of the drive.
But photorec can recover a lot without a file system by using the data on the 'disk surface' and identify the start of files by typical signatures for many files types including picture files and document files. This is explained at the cgsecurity web site.
But the files names are lost unless they are stored inside the files, and there is no directory structure. So it is a lot of hard work to identify the files and tell correct files from useless fragments and deleted versions.
