WD Elements 10B8 1012 Recovery from Android format

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slodriloch
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WD Elements 10B8 1012 Recovery from Android format

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Hi

I got a WD Elements 10B8 1012

My friend connected it to android phone and did a format on it.

How do I recover and revert the format to the old partition ?

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You can scan the drive the demo of R-Studio. If it finds your files, save them to another drive, if not, you might need the assistance of a data recovery pro.
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Will testdisk work to recover the partition lost and get back the drive as it was before ?
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It might, but i wouldn't try it without a ful sector-by-sector copy of the drive.
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slodriloch wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2016 1:32 pm Will testdisk work to recover the partition lost and get back the drive as it was before ?
yes) If you're looking for something to recover lost or deleted data, you're lucky enough as there are many software companies in the market which provide you best data recovery software.
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Re: WD Elements 10B8 1012 Recovery from Android format

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slodriloch wrote: Mon Aug 01, 2016 1:10 pm Hi

I got a WD Elements 10B8 1012

My friend connected it to android phone and did a format on it.

How do I recover and revert the format to the old partition ?

Regards
Perhaps a dumb question, but how the heck did he connect it to an android phone? And, why?
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