redbullmarky Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Anyone have any idea how to restore a partition? I had one of my drives partitioned into 3. However, when I deleted one of them, another one got totalled as well - and I need it back. Anyone know any (ideally free) ways of getting my partition back? Nothing was formatted at all. Cheers Mark edit: PS - I'm on Windows XP Pro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 What did you use, Partition Magic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 no - Disk Management (within Computer Management) on XP. I wouldnt be as confused, but i've done exactly the same thing before with no hassle - it just deleted a partition i didnt even have selected as well as the one I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Ouch. That sucks. Otherwise you may have been able to revert the changes. Does it say 'unallocated' in the disk manager? Then you'll need a data recovery tool. Plenty of them, none of them free, as far as I know. Otherwise, only drive assignment is screwed up, that should be fixable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Was this partition within the one you wanted to delete? Surely it has prompted you to save the partition table? Did you click yes? Otherwise, Id'e just shut Disk Management and start again (then again I know nothing about windows). It should'nt delete partitions without asking you wether or not you wish to save the partition table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 i tried that. the 3 partitions are (according to the image) consecutive. the one i selected and deleted was the first of the 3 - but when i selected "delete logical drive" it promted me - i clicked yes. but not only did THAT drive say its bye byes, so did the 3rd of the 3. now it shows the 3 partitions, but the first and 3rd are "Free Space" whilst the 2nd remains untouched. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjakreborn Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I don't know much about this, but after looking on google. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+partition+recovery+software&btnG=Google+Search THere are a few you can find for free, however since I don't know much about it, maybe it would be best to pay money for one. THere are a few I saw on there that were free, like 4-5 down the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelmanronald06 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 the space isn't gone. It has been marked as free space, but is still there, waiting to be written over. There is forensics software that allows experts to rebuild a formated, but unwritten over, harddrive. That is why DoD standards is to not only format the drive, but replace all data on with with random sequence of numbers: 010001211001101010101012244 Like that. I'm in a forensics class. If something like trying to recover it might interest you, and you haven't written anything to the drive since the format, I can take a look at the book/ask my professor and see what he says on getting it back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
448191 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Indeed the data is not gone, nor scrambled or anything of the sorts. If one restores the partition table the data will be accesible once more. Maybe you need the restore the MFT too, I don't know - I'm not an expert. Anyway, guess I found a tool to help you out. You can kiss me now.. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Acconding to this guy (it's in Dutch - maybe that's better because he clearly has no idea what he's doing), it works like a charm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul2463 Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Have a look at this, its free too <a href="http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm">PC INSPECTOR™ File Recovery</a> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmgmyr Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Check this out...There seems to be a few good ones in there. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=undelete+partition ...just try not to write anything to that drive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbullmarky Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 spot on chaps. i'll take a look and let you know! Cheers all for the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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