Is it possible to recover data from a formatted HDD with SGI XFS?

[Abdur Rahim Sopon]

HDD Capacity: 4TB WD (non-SMR)
Case History: The HDD originally had two partitions with two different virtual machine OS installations. The drive was accidentally formatted with XFS, resulting in a single 4TB partition.

[wayne horner]

Xfs spreads the inode tables across the drive. The second partition could be in great shape.
Because the size changed it could be that the inodes in the first partition are largely undamaged.

On Sun, Nov 17, 2024, 3:40 AM Abdur Rahim Sopon <sopo...@gmail.com> wrote:

HDD Capacity: 4TB WD (non-SMR)
Case History: The HDD originally had two partitions with two different virtual machine OS installations. The drive was accidentally formatted with XFS, resulting in a single 4TB partition.

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What file system was the drive originally using?

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[Abdur Rahim Sopon]

Ext4 

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[Alandata Recovery]

looks like you found the 2 previous partitions.

what does scanning as ext4 give you

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[Abdur Rahim Sopon]

This is the result of a quick scan of 1st partition.

data is abnormal!

when I scan full HDD it's UFS, R-studio, Disk Genius  - stuck after 50% 

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[wayne horner]

if you run the option to give the files proper extensions do you find valid files.

The inodes which point to the data

are separate from the directories which hold the filenames.

so these could be valid files

what do the hex signatures look like.

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[Abdur Rahim Sopon]

Finally, the case was solved.
the user sends second backup hdd then I connect all other devices and found 2 Samsung SSD with RAID 1.

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[Alandata Recovery]

so was it xfs or ext?

did the repartition something?

Glad you got it

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[Abdur Rahim Sopon]

XFS

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[jol qwerr]

I dont really understand why would you need additional hardware/disks when its a RAID 1

[Abdur Rahim Sopon]

now the case is solved

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 1:59 AM jol qwerr <qjol...@gmail.com> wrote:

I dont really understand why would you need additional hardware/disks when its a RAID 1

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