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External USB drive used to store .tib and .tibx files formatted

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I had an external USB drive that I used to store Acronis backup images that was accidently quick formatted.  No new data has been written to the drive.  I tried some of the utilities available to recover files but none of them seem to support .tib or .tibx files.  Does anyone know of way to get the data back?

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Alan, if the drive has been formatted, then you should just need to use a drive or partition recovery tool and let this recover all the drive content which includes any Acronis TIB & TIBX files.

If those Acronis files have been modified or corrupted by the drive format actions, then they will fail validation in the Acronis GUI and effectively be lost.

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Alan, if the drive has been formatted, then you should just need to use a drive or partition recovery tool and let this recover all the drive content which includes any Acronis TIB & TIBX files.

If those Acronis files have been modified or corrupted by the drive format actions, then they will fail validation in the Acronis GUI and effectively be lost.

I tried two different recovery utilities and they both see other files located on the formatted drive but neither one lists and .tib or .tibx files.  Can you recommend a recovery software that will recover those file types?

 

Alan, any recovery tools should recover all files of all types / extensions.  Sorry I can't offer any specific recommendations as I have had very few occasions when I have needed to use these type of tools and the last time was many years ago!

MiniTool Partition Wizard free offers a choice of both Data and Partition recovery tools that may be of help, even if only showing that any TIB / TIBX files are still present.

EaseUS offer a Data Recovery tool too.

If you search for data recovery tools you will find a number of reviews for both free and paid versions. Usually the free versions have a limit of the amount of data that can be recovered, which I am sure would be exceeded by the size of the .tib/.tibx files.

It might be worth grabbing some of the free ones to see what they say. I might be that they could at least tell you whether or not you could recover the files before paying for an unlimited version.