Recovering deleted partition

Azza

Was doing a reinstall of XP and went to delete 2 partitions on the 1 hard drive.

Deleted the windows install partition as I wanted but I then went but then went and accidentally deleted thw wrong partition on another drive. Was near 120GB of stuff on that drive was wondering if there was a way to recover it. I have not repartioned the drive yet. Anyone know if there is a way of recovering it?

Zascar

Oh thats horrible I've done it before its a killer. it was a long time ago but I do remerber there was quite a few programs on download.com that let you recover deleted files etc - as long as they haev not been written over. Best thing to do is get the hard drive in another PC as a slave and work on it form there. I remeber a few programs that let you view the files but to recover more than just a few MB you had to pay - but I'm sure you would have no problem paying about e30 for 120gb worth of data.

aFlabbyPanda

i've used 2 apps succesfuly to recovered deleted data Ontrack Easy Recovery & Runtime Get Data Back for NTFS. both have recovered various levels of data. Ontrack has a trial afaik. give that a try first as its faster and simpler to use.

Capt'n Midnight

If all else fails.
gpart on a linux boot disk will find the partition then you need to create it again with a linux utility fdisk/sfdisk

there are other utils out there.

DO NOT USE MICROSOFT FDISK !
as it may overwrite parts of the disk when checking the partition / disk intergrity

Dos 5 had a mirror command that would allow you to backup the partition table for snafu's like that. But it was removed, such is progress.

Capt'n Midnight

Please don't open old treads :)

Recuva doesn't recover partitions.

Installing apps on the drive you want to recover may overwrite those files. Best to do it offline.