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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're fucked. You likely won't be able to recover everything, and those are the things that are lost.

In the future, I'd unplug and drive you don't want Windows on. Then you have no way to make that mistake.

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My windows was being finicky and I wanted to do a fresh install, except I accidentally installed in on my hard drive and not my ssd. I used the tool recuva to try and recover some of the data. However some files like an html, shows random strings of text, as well as some videos and images show they are unplayable. Some zips also cant be unzipped. Do you have any software reccommendations that can fix this issue?
 

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're fucked. You likely won't be able to recover everything, and those are the things that are lost.

In the future, I'd unplug and drive you don't want Windows on. Then you have no way to make that mistake.

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5 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're fucked. You likely won't be able to recover everything, and those are the things that are lost.

In the future, I'd unplug and drive you don't want Windows on. Then you have no way to make that mistake.

Damn, that really sucks. I lost a ton of images and other data in it. Well i tried to unplug it but I made a mistake of not double-checking if the sata connector i unplugged is actually the ssd or the hdd, but thanks anyways.

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If that data is truly important to you then I'd recommend getting in touch with a data recovery company. They probably won't be able to get everything back since you've done more than just format the drive (you've also overwritten some of the data), but they'll probably have a better chance at getting things without damaging them further. Whatever you do in the meantime do not write to the drive. 

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Just now, BondiBlue said:

If that data is truly important to you then I'd recommend getting in touch with a data recovery company. They probably won't be able to get everything back since you've done more than just format the drive (you've also overwritten some of the data), but they'll probably have a better chance at getting things without damaging them further. Whatever you do in the meantime do not write to the drive. 

They are important, yes, but not to the extent of having to contact a data recovery service

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Just now, TotallyAliveTM said:

They are important, yes, but not to the extent of having to contact a data recovery service

Then just give it your best shot and then move on. Data loss sucks, but it comes with the territory of using computers. It happens to all of us at some point. 

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