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 Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 12:09 Post subject: Accidently deleted wrong Partition, any tips to recover it |
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I was upgrading my PC to a SSD for my C drive and I wasn't paying attention to the drive letters since they got changed and accidently deleted a Partition on my old hard drive with all my games, game saves and documents, any tips to recover it.
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 12:35 Post subject: |
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| red_avatar wrote: | https://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/index.htm
As long as you didn't merge partitions with another drive it should be fine. I used this in the past and it worked well. |
It is telling me it is a Dynamic Disk and does not seem to be able to do anything with it. So might you have any other suggestions or ideas I can try.
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tonizito
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 13:00 Post subject: |
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ur fucked 
1 - don't do anything on that partition
2 - try something like stellar phoenix windows data recovery
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 13:52 Post subject: |
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That's why I never ever do anything fancy with my drives - it's not worth losing your data. RAID, mirroring, etc. it's all a nasty business when things go wrong. Unless the drive is used for stuff you don't mind losing ...
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 14:12 Post subject: |
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| red_avatar wrote: | | That's why I never ever do anything fancy with my drives - it's not worth losing your data. RAID, mirroring, etc. it's all a nasty business when things go wrong. Unless the drive is used for stuff you don't mind losing ... |
I don't remember setting it up as a Dynamic and this is the first time I have ever had something like this happen so maybe someone else might have an idea or hopefully Phoenix Windows Data Recovery might do the trick.
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Frant
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 16:22 Post subject: |
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GetDataBack is the best disk rescue software I've used.
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TSR69
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 19:10 Post subject: |
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I would advice to try some more utils that provide partition undelete functionality.
You may want to remove that SSD for the time being.
If that partition was a normal partition it should not be recognized as a dynamic disk.
https://www.google.nl/search?q=partition+recovery+free
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 19:15 Post subject: |
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| red_avatar wrote: | | That's why I never ever do anything fancy with my drives - it's not worth losing your data. RAID, mirroring, etc. it's all a nasty business when things go wrong. Unless the drive is used for stuff you don't mind losing ... |
I use 'dynamic' disks on Windows and it actually saved me a lot of data several times. It's not rocket science, but it just works. If you reinstall Windows it's easy to restore the disks as well, just use important and it's done. For important data I mirror (RAID 1), my games are on RAID 0 (I don't mind redownloading that).
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TSR69
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 19:27 Post subject: |
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A couple of questions to get the right picture:
That C drive of yours was just 1 HDD? Your PC just had 1 HDD?
And you created a primary partition in the past and a secondary partition with some more drives? (partitions in the secondary partition)
And you deleted a drive (partition) in the secondary partition?
Edit: Partitions in the secondary partition are called logical partitions.
Edir2: Also a secondary partition is actually called an extended partition.
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| Posted: Sat, 24th Nov 2018 21:18 Post subject: |
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i had something similar, and i did get it all back within an hour 
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Nov 2018 03:02 Post subject: |
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Thanks for all the software recommendations and if anyone has any other tips, they are always appreciated. Since I had multiple drives in the system I can avoid using it till I hopefully find the right software that will be able to recover the files I need but since it is a 5TB drive it seems the scans times take a while so I have not been able to tell if I am going to have any success yet.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Nov 2018 06:49 Post subject: |
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I think I might be in luck as Stellar Data Recovery seems to be working for me so far as I have been able to recover some of the files one directory at a time and from the few random files I have checked out they seem to be in working order. Thanks again for everyone's help and suggestions and feel free to keep them coming as this info may help the next person who runs into a similar issue as well.
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TSR69
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Nov 2018 09:08 Post subject: |
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Good Luck Owen with the recovery!
My 2 posts above were useless I am afraid.
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| Posted: Sun, 25th Nov 2018 09:44 Post subject: |
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| TSR69 wrote: | Good Luck Owen with the recovery!
My 2 posts above were useless I am afraid. |
Any help at all was useful so I am thankful for all the posts as I did go through and try most of the softwares recommended and I am sure the other software probably would work well but Stellar Data Recovery seems to be working so far for me as the random pictures, text files and movies samples I have tested look fine. I am just downloading one of the Steam games now to make sure that the recovered saves are working. This will probably still take me a few days to get everything back though as I still have not got to my big Picture directory which has a lot of images in it.
This also gave me a good wakeup call to make sure to back up stuff on multiple drives more often so I will probably have to look into a program that automates such tasks in the future.
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