Just an hour ago I used the ext2fsd tool to copy photos from a FAT32 formatted SD card to an ext4 partition on a 2TB HDD while running Windows 10. After the copy operation completed I made the mistake of formatting the SD card without doing a thorough verification of the backup.
When I connected the backup drive to another computer the folder which I copied the files to no longer existed. I'm certain I didn't make a symlink or anything of that sort because it took nearly half an hour to copy the 14 or so GB of data.
My question is, what happened to the files I copied over? I'm currently attempting to recover the files from the SD card using the "Recuva" free recovery software seeing as I only did a quick format I believe this should work.