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Accidentally created MBR on external hard drive, unallocated entire partition

I put the files from the windows repair iso on my external hard drive, but when i rebooted the files from the iso are all that are left, and there is a fat32 mbr partition, and the rest of the drive has been unallocated.  I could have also done this accidentally with the mount command in the repair command prompt section?

Wondering if i can somehow easily repair the drive partition and get my data back

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You could use a data recovery software like EaseUS to recover the files

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9 hours ago, chudtopia said:

You could use a data recovery software like EaseUS to recover the files

What kind of success rate would be expected?  Would i be better off just changing the partition headers and seeing if the data is still there?  This is a 4tb drive so recovery software would probably take a lot longer {not to mention the software is expensive}, so i don't want to use it unless it is safer.

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