Undo the CLEAN command on the portable hdd : DISKPART

Question

When using DISKPART I accidentally used the CLEAN command on my portable WD 500gb HDD. Now it is not showing as a drive in my computer, though shows as unallocated space in Disk Management.

Thanks for your help

Solution 1

testdisk might be able to fix that.

1. Download System Rescue CD (live cd) and burn it to a disk or just download testdisk
2. run testdisk
3. choose to create a log file
4. choose the disk that you ran clean on
5. choose intel
6. choose analyze
7. choose quick search
8. confirm to preceed
9. testdisk should find the deleted partition
10. confirm to save the partition table.
11. check for files.

Solution 2

If there's data on the disk that needs to be recovered, don't do this!

You'll need to recreate a partition and format it. Diskpart is capable of doing both:

• select disk 1 or whatever number refers to your hard drive, use list disk to find out.
• create partition primary will create one large partition. Use help create partition primary for more options.
• select partition 1
• format quick to create the file system. Once again, check help format for more options.

Comments

[pranav malayil]

Thanks, but I have a little understanding on these, can you please specify some steps..

[pranav malayil]

YESS!! It is back :)

[pranav malayil]

Hey you said format? I have datas in the portable!!

[d4v3y0rk]

Excellent, it is always nice when we can so easily undo. LOL

[Marcks Thomas]

This is true. Back up your data.

[Blue Smith]

Thanks @DaveYork so much, your tip saved my data and my life :D

[om252345]

@DaveYork on my laptop internal hard disk, I ran clean command on disk 1 i.e. My entire data is gone, there is lots of code, pictures of my life, I do not have any backup. Now I do not have Windows installation on my laptop,.please tell me how can I recover all data, I can not loose data.

[LoneWOLFs]

I did exactly this but it didn't detect my lost partition on the drive any idea what would have gone wrong? I am pretty sure I didn't write anything on the drive. :(

[d4v3y0rk]

how exactly did you lose the partition?

[Muhammet Ali Asan]

You saved my life sir :) I got all my files back in the fastest way