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    Accidentally started format on VHDX drive, stopped it almost immediately. Can I recover it?


    I intended to format a USB flash drive I had just inserted into my computer, but accidentally started the format on the adjacent drive using Rufus as the easiest way to put FAT32 on a 64GB Flash drive, which is great, but it sets the drive to be formatted via drop-down, and when I ejected and reinserted the Flash drive, it changed to the next drive for the format -- something I now see as a design flaw. That drive was a VHDX drive with a lot of important data on it almost 90GB, including data going back about 20 years. I had a File Explorer window open to a folder on that volume which clos

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