Hello there!
First of, I'd like to thank you Jayro for offering this tool to the world and having consecrated so much time to this project. For someone who envisions to find OS projects to build in their developer life, you're a real source of inspiration.
My friend is trying to recover data from an unbootable partition (due to a corrupt MFT) which was in some way wiped out by chkdsk.
Their plan is to boot the Windows OS from Medicat 20.06 to get to EaseUS from there (since they only have a Linux partition aside from that), and export them on an external drive to rename/reformat them later if needed.
But there are a good number of questions which block them on their path:
- Their OS before the wipeout was Windows 7. Should they boot up specifically on the Windows 7 option for matching purposes or is any other version (8.1, 10) okay for that matter?
- The size of their partition was 1.3TB and the external drive they plan on exporting it on is only 1TB, but the data previously occupied in there could fit. Will they need a 2TB for that still?
- Is there a chance that chkdsk makes it so they can't retrieve their data at all?
- Since the full analysis will probably take them 13 to 18 hours, how does the "progress state recording for later" functionality actually work? And is it fine to use granted that since he won't mount his partition in between uses, his data won't be flying here and there?
Thanks in advance for your time and answer and have a good day!