• mvirts@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Obligatory mention of file recovery as an option if you get in this situation.I recommend testdisk but there are other more gui friendly options.

    NTFS takes a relatively long time to destroy the data so chances of recovery are good on Windows.

    • dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org
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      15 days ago

      pretty unlike fat32 (fats fragmentation rate is obscenely high tbh)

      well thats unless youre on ssd but most people use hdd