How to rescue an external hard drive when I mistakenly download Windows installation file (USB file) on it?

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Hi everyone,I wanted to perform a clean install on my laptop in order to change the Windows Insider program channel. By that, I need to create a Windows installation media. However, as I downloaded the installation file from the Media Creation Tool, I have not noticed that the targetted download folder was my external hard drive, which erased and reformatted all the data. How can I recover and save this hard drive?Sincerely.P/s: My drive was 4TB, and here is the capture of its format and capacity now

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