M.2 SSD Data recovery

[Enerox]

Dear LTT Forum,

 

TIFU by deleting partitions on one of my friends M.2 SSD drives.

I was troubleshooting something, took out the HDD, put a new one in to reinstall windows and then just copy the data from the old one.

The part where i messed up, is that I didn't realize the notebook has an M.2 drive.

 

So Win10 installation screen pops up, i happily click "delete" on all the patitions thinking it's just some of my leftover ones on the HDD I've put in.

Instant regret follows, as I realize there are two drives and I just deleted his M.2 partitions with all the data on there still.

 

Is the data gone? Can i somehow save at least something?

The drive now shows up in disk manager, but it's waiting to be "initialized" and i get an error choosing bot GPT and MBR saying “The request failed due to a fatal device hardware error”.

 

Any help is appreciated.

[rcmaehl]

You can try testdisk and photorec but beware that these can have a high learning curve.

[Enerox]

I'll look into them. Thank you @rcmaehl!