Hi all!
I made a huge mistake using Microsoft’s’ “diskpart” to “clean” a ~2 terabyte drive and install Windows 11 on top of data contained within said drive. This drive contains some of the most important data that’s crossed my system, and I’m hard-set on recovering the data within.
This disk is, as mentioned before, approximately 2 terabytes in capacity; contained a single partition spanning the drive in the ext4 file system; and has a GPT partition table.
I have utilized multiple utilities to only analyze the drive, such as “TestDisk” and “EaseUS Data Recovery”, and have found what I expected: most of the drive’s contents remains in-tact, with artifacts of a clean installation of Windows 11.
Those who would be so kind as to advise me: how may I go about recovering this data best? I am rather inept with regards to Linux functions, if I’m to say, and would appreciate both said help, as well as such a consideration.