# Accidentally reformatted hard drive! **URL:** \ **Category:** Newbie\ **Created:** [August 8, 2020, 6:50am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/accidentally-reformatted-hard-drive/6604 "2020-08-08T06:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![FLVAL](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/flval/32/2442_2.png) [@FLVAL](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/FLVAL)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2020, 8:25am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/accidentally-reformatted-hard-drive/6604/11 "2020-08-08T08:25:16Z")
Before to pay expensive way to recover your data, at least try the excellent Testdisk. But first of all if you try it, you make a clone image of your disk with Testdisk to not touch you HDD or SSD then you work only on the image of your drive to try everything you want without killing the possibility to bring your drive to the computer shop… > [@\[Solved\] An application to recovery data from a USB?](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/solved-an-application-to-recovery-data-from-a-usb/3254/2): > > You have the excellent Testdisk from Christophe Grenier to use on Terminal. Before to play with it, my advice would be to do an image of your USB with it by security then You could use it to recover your data without risk to loose… sudo pacman -S testdisk [https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk](https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) If you need only to recover pictures you could use PhotoRec on a faster way. These 2 Apps are powerfull. [https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec](https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec) --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/accidentally-reformatted-hard-drive/6604)._