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Repair information on hard drives or hard disks. Hard drives are magnetic data storage devices. They are used in most desktop, laptop, and server due to their low cost and high data density.

Installed OS on wrong drive

I installed a SSD and RAM in my iMac 21.5 4k 2017 today following the Ifixit guide. However, when reinstalling the OS from my Time Machine, I chose the wrong drive. I chose a partitioned drive that had data on it instead of the new drive. Is there any way for me to get back the data on that drive?

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Hi @yochibo

I would say, very difficult as I had tried before, reimaged a hdd from winxp to win7 during a OS upgrade exercise on one of the pc.

user feedback that he had backup his data, but on last minute asked me if i can recovered as he keep some files in C:\windows\foldername (rolleyes)

I tried using software like getdataback, but no success….

hopefully other mates here can give you better suggestion or if it is really important… give a call to data recovery specialist.

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