Oh god...help - Partition recovery. Advice on creating thread titles also welcome.

Slime101

Slime101

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During my re-install i thought i had disabled in the bios my photo storage drive (200GB of work and photos for work).

During the install i deleted the partition, mistaking it for my primary drive - i've not overwriten the data or touched the drive since...is there any hope for getting it back?
 
I'll have a peek with some of those programs, if nessecary i have used a company for data recovery before with a client of mine :)

Rednut05 - My photos are related in a BIG way to my work....the form part of my income and hence are vitally important...god i'm a mupped!!

//Note to self - ALWAYS pay attention at vital stages of re-installations! :p
 
Memphis said:
If all you have done is deleted the partition and not setup a new one or formatted it then yes, it's very possible to get the data back.

Google for GetDataBack to start with.
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It comes up with a website that just shows a load of other manufacturers programs, is this the right site???
 
Hmm....the drive isnt showing in windows. I can see it in the disk management console but if it partition it again itll screw it up right???

Oh ****, i can see this ending badly if i click the wrong thing!
 
Getdataback seems to be doing a marvelous job - its found all the directories and files and i'm now copying them to my primary drive to recover them :)

Thanks for everyones help.
 
Phnom_Penh said:
Goto control panel, administrative tools, computer management, then goto storage, and disk management. Then your drives will be listed, and if the drive your photos and stuff has a partition on it, it will say next to it.
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As i said above it shows on the disk management console (as you refer to) but it didnt say anythign about a partition. the data is too valuable to risk doing anything without recovering the data and as i deleted the partiton on windows install i cant see why it would be there :)
 
KingAdora said:
This is why you rename your drives/partitions with sensible names. :) That way when it comes to the installation stage, you can instantly see what's going and what's staying..
C: WINDOWS
D: MUSIC
E: BACKUPS
etc, etc.

'Local disk' for the lose.
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Actually it was called D:\Photos - but that doesnt show in windows xp install!

P.S - Thanks to the passing medalamaniac who changed the title that really didnt need changing ;)
 
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