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I decided to format my laptop and reinstall everything again, so I borrowed a friend's external drive that had content in it and downloaded a disk imaging software to backup my hard own drive on to my friend's drive.

I figured the software automatically created a folder in the destination drive, but no: it overwrote the whole thing and its content is now identical as my hard drive's - And my friend's files are gone...!

Is it possible to recover my friend's data?

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Before we continue let's be clear:

Some data has been irrecoverably lost!

However, depending on the size of your data and the size of your friend's data, some might still be recoverable. E.G. if you cloned a small 80GB HDD onto a 2TB HDD, containing 1TB of data, only 80GB of the 1TB is truly lost.

If the other way around, all data is lost.

If the former, TestDisk is your best tool, but the work will be tedious...

Sorry, but that's the best we can do without actually laying our hands on that HDD... :-(

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