no
you can't compress it more then it is and if you do it won't be by much.
this is exactly why I told you to go mirrored.

if the data matters that much grab another 4tb
then you'll have redundancy too

ok well. i guess after the power outage during the partition, it made it so the partition was unformatted and unlabeled. so i gave it a letter, and formatted it. i then ran the TestDisk again. and then the partition showed up as being able to be selected. i am now in the process of copying over the files that were found by TestDisk to the same hdd in which it found files. it
so everything looks good so far, and like it has found all of my files and is copying them over.

if you copy to teh same disk your going to possibly overwrite the data.

gl.

thanks for warning. but if the TestDisk found this data on the hdd. although the hdd does not show any files. then if i copy these files to the same hdd, using the data from TestDisk, then i hope it would just overwrite the files as the same exact files that were originally there?

Not sure of the order or how to works, but if it can just copy over the data in a way in which it doesnt loose any data would be nice. but since i dont have a 3rd hdd for this task, i think this is my best option?

thats not how it works.
hence me saying gl.

atm the data is in a raw state but when writing it back to drive it may overlap some raw data and corrupt it
the partition does not acknowledge raw data as its not being index'd

This post was edited by King Atrhur on Aug 12 2017 06:05pm

yea that makes sense. i guess this is better than not recovering any data at all.

so i guess its very likely to corrupt some data or alot of data lol

This post was edited by noob_whacker on Aug 12 2017 06:28pm