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Recover 1TB disk erased with startup disk creator

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Hello. I was trying to make a bootable flash drive from the startup disk creator, and when I went to erase the flash drive I accidentally erased the wrong drive, a 1TB removable drive. The operation took less than a second and gave no warning. I tried erasing the flash drive and it took about a minute, but it took but a second to erase the 1 TB drive, which is very surprising.

Please help,
Gabriel

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answered 1 Year ago azaaburge · Accepted Answer

Try to recover the partition with TestDisk.
Careful: don't write on the drive.

Instructions step-by-step:

Install TestDisk

Mount the drive

Launch sudo testdisk (eventually enlarge the terminal)

Create a new log file

Select the drive

Select partition Table (usually Intel should be good)

Analyse

Quick Search (this should found only the actual partition)

[Enter]

Deeper Search (this should find your old partition, you can stop it after it found it) Once you found what you think it's your partition select it with up/down arrows

[P] for list files and look if it seems it

[q] to quit list files

[Enter]

Write to save new partition table to MBR.

Look carefully: this don't overwrite / recover any data, just the MBR of the disk.