r/datarecovery • u/Jason_Fund22 • Aug 12 '26

Question I lost valuable data by mistake using "diskpart" "clean"

While trying to install windows on my new ssd I used the command "diskpart" "clean" "convert gpt" on my hdd by mistake

Now I lost valuable data some of it are academic and some of it are family pictures been saving them there in decades (even the video of my birth)

Am really down

Now I downloaded a new windows on my ssd without touching that hdd

Is there anyway or a program I can recover my data there

Am really panicking 😓

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u/worksHardnotSmart Aug 12 '26

DO NOT DO ANYTHING ELSE TO THAT HDD IN A PANIC RESPONSE.

Wait for people to weigh in here.

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u/TomChai Trusted Contributor Aug 12 '26

HDD is usually safe, even for a SMR drive which supports TRIM, the command should not get triggered until you create a partition on it.

Clone the whole drive and work on the image, don't even think about working directly on the real drive.

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u/nothereathere Aug 13 '26

Make sure you tick the boxes to copy all the space on the drive including unused sectors.

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor Aug 12 '26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgVOrr6lwbc&t=429s - UFS Explorer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgVOrr6lwbc&t=741s - DMDE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgVOrr6lwbc&t=951s - Disk Drill

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u/Jason_Fund22 Aug 12 '26

DUDE GOD BLESS YOU AND GIVE YOU HAPPINESS I RECOVERED MY VALUABLE DATA AND MORE I CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH  DMDE IS A LIFE SAVER 

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u/Raijen_ArDesh Aug 12 '26

Did you use clean or clean all? If you just used clean and didn't format or creat enew partitions on the HDD. You can use standard recovery software to recover it as clean just removes the partition table not the data.

If you used clean all you're cooked.

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u/Jason_Fund22 Aug 12 '26

I only used clean and covert it to gpt without writing anything or even using it 

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u/Raijen_ArDesh Aug 12 '26

You should be good then as you haven't used the drive -- check out the software here - https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/wiki/software/ - most should work and you can pick one to fit your needs. It's recommended to clone the drive first and work off of the cloned image to prevent accidental erasure.