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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

well thats unless youre on ssd but most people use hdd