lurch, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

before you change anything it would be good to use dd and save the whole drive to a bigger drive or maybe compress it with gzip while using dd to save it to a slightly smaller one. That takes a very long time, but gives you the ability to start over with your recovery. Only do that if it’s worth to wait several hours.

photorec can also recover some files by looking at the raw data still there, if all else fails.