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Originally Posted by nico-t
thanks! Checking photorec out, hope i can get the most important stuff back.
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If it doesn't work when selecting NTFS for the filesystem I suggest trying to have it check the entire disk without regards to the file system. I think I read from the documentation that it might read the meta data. This might cause it to believe that a file really is 0k when it really isn't (I'm not sure exactly how it works or if it will be an issue). Trying it again using no filesystem type might help it ignore the file table which claims the file is of 0K size.
The menu can be a little difficult to figure out (not very intuitive) so you might want to test it out on something else first. Also this will likely take a long time. If you have a drive over a couple hundred gigs it might even take a full day (!). There's a way to have it only scan freespace which might help but I believe this requires selecting the partition type which may cause you to run into the problem above. But I'd try that first.
Good luck!