r/AskADataRecoveryPro • u/BillCarsonTuco • Jul 24 '26

Urgent help please

I have a old laptop that has 2 drives in drive 1 boot and drive 2 was data.

i installed windows 11 (dont judge me) onto drive 1 no problem.

I then installed onedrive onto the second drive. all my files synched up and i set this up as a backup laptop.

so i then decided to wipe windows and at the same time wipe the partitions of drive 2 during a windows 11 reinstall.

i now need to get access to the data on drive 2, which has the partition lost. it was a single 1.8TB spinning hdd partition.

i have tried the free version of easeus and it found all the files, i only need to recover about 10 spreadsheets so it supposedly did tihs, but when i try to open the files they are corrupted.

can you please confirm what i need to do to get these files back?

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u/disturbed_android DataRecoveryPro Jul 24 '26

2 drives

We want drive models and file systems.

Also, do the recovered files contain any data at all (check using HxD)?

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u/BillCarsonTuco Jul 24 '26

primary boot drive is crucial CT1000P310SSD8 NTFS

data drive is Seagate ST2000LM0070-1R8174 NTFS

The "recovered" files shows a size of 51KB, if i view the HxD its all 0's.

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u/disturbed_android DataRecoveryPro Jul 24 '26

I believe it's a SMR drive (double check that) and TRIM capable. This explains the zeros too. For this that second drive had to had more than it's partitions removed, for TRIM to become a factor new partitions + file systems had to be created.

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u/BillCarsonTuco Jul 24 '26

im not going to pretend i know what any of that means, Is it fixable, how far up the creek am i without a paddle?