How to recover deleted NTFS partitions?
TestDisk
will do what you want. Another option (if you are on Linux, e.g. from a Live CD) would be gpart
.
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Stephen Rauch over 1 year
Last night I made a terrible mistake. I was reinstalling Windows and I accidentally deleted all the partitions on all my drives. I realized my mistake before I had created any partitions, so nothing has been written to any of the disks. I'm currently at my wits' end about what I'll do if I don't manage to recover the data.
I have two 1TB drives and a 2TB. One of the 1TB was the drive I was supposed to be reformatting so nothing to be recovered there. I am currently in a Linux livecd.
In this article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245725 Microsoft advises to recreate the exact same partition but choose not to format it, and then recover the backup boot sector from the end of the ntfs volume.
But none of the drives I want to recover are bootable drives. So does that mean I do not need to rewrite the boot sector? As in if I simply recreate a partition of the same size it will see all my data?
Or would I be better off using the TestDisk utility? http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
Please help, I'm desperate!!
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joeqwerty over 11 years1. DO NOT format or otherwise write to the drive. 2. Put the drive into a machine that you can access it from. 3. Find a file recovery utility that allows you to recover lost files and partitions.
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HopelessN00b over 11 yearsUse the Google. There are plenty of utilities (some free, IIRC) that can recover a partition you deleted that way. If you overwrite it, or "recreate the partition," this makes the process MUCH harder and more likely that you'll have to shell out some serious money to mostly get your data back.
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ndoll over 11 yearsWhile we don't normally do product recommendations in this instance I'll suggest R-Studio, which I've used many times in these circumstances.
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