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I used a USB flash drive that had about 59/64GB worth of files on it to make a bootable USB device for a fresh Windows 10 install on a new PC. Halfway through the validation it occurred to me that I had formatted/written over the 59GB of contents... I have mild knowledge of Scalpel/Foremost/Photorec on Unix for CTF-style file recovery questions but I don't have access to a Linux/Unix machine that will have enough space for dd-ing the whole drive. The person whose stuff I wrote over only asked for the names of the files from the drive back, and all files were InDesign documents, JPEGs, and PDFs.

I ran EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard and chkdsk :X /f. The EaseUS returned just the files from the Windows 10 boot and chkdsk /f did nothing. I have not changed the data in the image in any way.

My question is: will I even be able to/is it worth the effort to recover just the file names from my situation above?

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  • How big was the windows 10 ISO? And if it has been overwritten, then there nothing you can do.
    – Phoenix
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 4:33
  • Often in this kind of situation, scavenging the files may produce some results, but getting the names back is the tough part.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Mar 28, 2020 at 10:36
  • A free utility, Recuva, may help you out
    – JohnnyVegas
    Commented Mar 31, 2020 at 21:39

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