how to recover data that your pc cant read?

[76561198285398721]

im panicking and posting this on every damn forum i can find

i had bought a 2nd xbox360 i wanted to use for a backup, i configured (formatted) a usb in the 1st xbox, but when i put it in the 2nd xbox, it couldnt see what was on there for some reason and only gave me the option to configure it again. so i decided to try that, then transfer everything again, even tho it took a long time

well my dumb ass assumed it copied the files, but it actually moves them. so i just formatted the usb with my 14 or 15 year old profile and a bunch of my saves with no backup. now instead of making a backup, im looking for ways to get my stuff back. i made it way worse

problem is pcs cant read xbox "language" without special software. this is what i found: https://gruntmods.com/usb-xtaf-explorer/ is it possible to use something like this in conjunction with a recovery software? or maybe something that can just bring back everything without having to distinguish anything?

i cancelled the format as soon as i started it when i realized i should probably check it copied and didnt move

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Nope, it's gone

[DOOMed]

76561198285398721 の投稿を引用：

im panicking and posting this on every damn forum i can find

i had bought a 2nd xbox360 i wanted to use for a backup, i configured (formatted) a usb in the 1st xbox, but when i put it in the 2nd xbox, it couldnt see what was on there for some reason and only gave me the option to configure it again. so i decided to try that, then transfer everything again, even tho it took a long time

well my dumb ass assumed it copied the files, but it actually moves them. so i just formatted the usb with my 14 or 15 year old profile and a bunch of my saves with no backup. now instead of making a backup, im looking for ways to get my stuff back. i made it way worse

problem is pcs cant read xbox "language" without special software. this is what i found: https://gruntmods.com/usb-xtaf-explorer/ is it possible to use something like this in conjunction with a recovery software? or maybe something that can just bring back everything without having to distinguish anything?

i cancelled the format as soon as i started it when i realized i should probably check it copied and didnt move

It's possible, but it's probably not something that you can do yourself. I'm assuming here as well. Assuming that the 2nd box just wrote zeroes or random trash data to the drive, it can be recovered, but if it's just save data...you have to consider the cost of specialist data retrieval over just playing the games again... I mean its expensive

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well for one those usb pen drives are flash memory. Not as easy to recover as a mechanical HDD. On a HDD you usually undo the format if it was quick formatted once over the previous data

[nullable]

I think it might be possible to recover some data. I don't think it's going to be possible to undo everything you did to dig the hole. Some processes are destructive and not recoverable.

I would generally agree with Get Some! I'm thinking the same thing. Specialized data recovery again is just going to recover files, not reconstruct the drive to some previous workable state.

But I would maybe look at asking the question on some specialized Xbox360/360 modding communities. They're bound to have more practical expertise about your situation than a random PC hardware forum. My philosophy is usually to find the community that specializes in your issue rather than random forums where you might get lucky that someone happens to have the exact specialized expertise you need.

So if they were to say you were up a creek without a paddle that would be more definitive in my mind. Or they might have better advice about the situation. And I think your best bet to not make the situation work is talk to people who are more qualified than people who are largely going to making guesses.

[N3tRunn3r]

If your drive is "quickly formatted", there is a good chance. To rebuild database tables and so to recover your files without any loss within a minute.

TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Highly professional, smart and small tool easy to use. 100% Freeware & Open Source.
This tool has made it into my collection.

ReadMe
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk_doc/

-> 7. Repairing filesystem
-> 8. Recovering deleted files using TestDisk
-> 9. Recovering deleted partition using TestDisk

Good Luck!

[DevaVictrix]

Yeah, photorec would be the one. It just goes through the drive block by block.

You’ll end up with the files, not the directories. Photorec just puts the files in folders as it pieces them back together so its seems unorganised and difficult to find a specific file or type.

Here’s a bash script that puts each file type in its own folder… useful if your looking for game saves, for example.

Just set the file type, original (the path to recovered files) and new (path to where you want the sorted files to go).

The last two commands deletes a source file after it’s been copied and any empty source directories. You may want to omit those. I chose to delete a copied source so I know every filetype has been found and moved.

filetype=png
&& original=data
&& new=flat
&& mkdir -p /$new/$filetype/
&& find /$original -name "*.$filetype" -type f -exec cp -v {} /$new/$filetype \;
&& sudo find /$original -name "*.$filetype" -type f -exec rm -v {} \;
&& find /$original -empty -type d -delete

[76561198285398721]

N3tRunn3r の投稿を引用：

If your drive is "quickly formatted", there is a good chance. To rebuild database tables and so to recover your files without any loss within a minute.

TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.2-WIP, Data Recovery
https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Highly professional, smart and small tool easy to use. 100% Freeware & Open Source.
This tool has made it into my collection.

ReadMe
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk_doc/

-> 7. Repairing filesystem
-> 8. Recovering deleted files using TestDisk
-> 9. Recovering deleted partition using TestDisk

Good Luck!

:cwat:

i downloaded this and ran the testdisk exe, selected xbox and stuff, dont really remember exactly what i did but its finished some scan, and i have a couple options:
"A: add partition, L: Load backup, Enter: to continue"

pressing enter gives me a message that says "No partition found or selected for recovery", has it simply not found anything or should i add partition? i dont want to accidentally do something that overwrites or breaks something, i dont really know what this option does exactly

i did this on the usb as thats the easiest

[76561198285398721]

DevaVictrix の投稿を引用：

Yeah, photorec would be the one. It just goes through the drive block by block.

You’ll end up with the files, not the directories. Photorec just puts the files in folders as it pieces them back together so its seems unorganised and difficult to find a specific file or type.

Here’s a bash script that puts each file type in its own folder… useful if your looking for game saves, for example.

Just set the file type, original (the path to recovered files) and new (path to where you want the sorted files to go).

The last two commands deletes a source file after it’s been copied and any empty source directories. You may want to omit those. I chose to delete a copied source so I know every filetype has been found and moved.

filetype=png
&& original=data
&& new=flat
&& mkdir -p /$new/$filetype/
&& find /$original -name "*.$filetype" -type f -exec cp -v {} /$new/$filetype \;
&& sudo find /$original -name "*.$filetype" -type f -exec rm -v {} \;
&& find /$original -empty -type d -delete

so after trying the testdisk exe i tried the photorec one, it gave me xbox stuff for sure, but its only a few hundred mb, all .png, .avi, .wav and .txt etc, basically just screenshots, menu icons, intro movies and that kind of thing. i had something like 12 gb on that usb. the photorec exe didnt have any option for xbox like the testdisk one did - it seems like it couldnt see most of it?

btw it also gave me all that in 4 different folders which i thought was kinda weird

edit: actually there is some stuff that looks different, only a few but some are like .gz or .tff, maybe they are save files idk, but still i think it should be way more than a few hundred mb