I ran a disk defragmenter and lost all my shit

maybe try a disk recovery program?

Make an image of the disk and copy the image to a new disk where it will be safe.

Use testdisk to try and recover the partition table of the disk.

>not having a backup

I see posts about data loss here every week. When will people learn, accidents happen, back up your files if they're important.

No external drive to back up to? Buy one, less than $100 gets you multiple terabytes. Too poor to afford that? Skip the movies/music/porn and put your most important stuff on a flash drive. No flash drive? Put it in some free cloud thing like drop box or even email it to yourself on Gmail.

There is no excuse for data loss. Not taking steps to protect yourself is pure laziness.

>not having verbatim blu-ray back-ups
idiot

Just re-install from your backups.

Oh, wait - you don't . . . ?

>defragging in 2017

>>59757403
this lmao

>>59756941
>defragmenter
you drew this on yourself

Well testdisk and/or photorec are your best chances at recovering your data.

Start with testdisk, make a disk image and then make a few copies for safe keeping. Do not use the hard disk directly. Use testdisk on the disk image and try to recover the partition table. If your files are still missing the problem is likely with the MFT itself. Use testdisk to try and recover the MFT using the backup/shadow MFT. Hopefully that will work.

If testdisk doesn't work you use photorec to search for the files manually. Photorec looks at file headers and data directly and disregards the filesystem. Photorec will recover some of the data but it may not recover data that was modified prior.

>>59756941
>having to defrag your hard drive
How can Windows be this shit