Hi,
I'm a bit panicky right now because I think I may have messed up royaly. I have an Asus RT-AC68U router, and I have a 2TB Seagate external USB drive plugged into it and using it as network storage. While I was in the prosses of installing another new drive to the router I think I formatted the old drive which has quite literally Years worth of data that, if I loose all of it... Well I don't know what I will do. It's extremely important to me. I am kicking myself and panicking, and going through stages of grief over it. So my nervous question is, can it by any chance be recovered?
I know there's data recovery software for windows that can do that sort of thing. But I also know from experience that a drive that's plucked from the router and plugged into a windows PC wont show anything, it's not even detected as a drive. So I ask, desperately, does anyone here have any idea how (/if) I can save the data on the drive?
Perhaps I put this thread in the wrong forum topic? I just noticed there's a separate section for this router model. Perhaps that's a better place?
I'm a bit panicky right now because I think I may have messed up royaly. I have an Asus RT-AC68U router, and I have a 2TB Seagate external USB drive plugged into it and using it as network storage. While I was in the prosses of installing another new drive to the router I think I formatted the old drive which has quite literally Years worth of data that, if I loose all of it... Well I don't know what I will do. It's extremely important to me. I am kicking myself and panicking, and going through stages of grief over it. So my nervous question is, can it by any chance be recovered?
I know there's data recovery software for windows that can do that sort of thing. But I also know from experience that a drive that's plucked from the router and plugged into a windows PC wont show anything, it's not even detected as a drive. So I ask, desperately, does anyone here have any idea how (/if) I can save the data on the drive?
Perhaps I put this thread in the wrong forum topic? I just noticed there's a separate section for this router model. Perhaps that's a better place?
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