My friend doesn’t have any backup of valuable data. I would like to ask if someone has experience with data recovery, or knowledge about the factory reset process?
Is the reset securely overwriting all user data (with tools like shred or similar), a simple delete, or is it merely replacing the filesystem or partition?
Is there any point in trying to use filesystem forensics to recover something?
I would greatly appreciate any success story that anyone could share.
I asked a KI, that suggested to try extundelete, testdisk and photorec.
But first i have to create a linux live-system usb-stick for my windows-computer… So it will take its time, but i will report here.
Recommendations and Suggestions are welcome, if you have something for me.
Just to say that I tried and failed to get my nextbox to boot from an external usb-stick. It always wanted to boot from the internal card. An AI advised how to fix this but its advice didn’t work.
That’s unfortunate. My approach is to disassemble the Nextbox and connect the hard drive to a notebook. But I need Linux on the notebook to gain access to the hard drive. So I want a Linux Live USB stick for the notebook, not for the Nextbox, because I don’t have Linux running yet.
