Oh No - Just Accidently Deleted a Partition! Help!

Hawk Tuah · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:46

I was just reinstalling XP on my server and I forgot my external storage drive was plugged in. Went through the normal routing of deleting the partition.

Then I realised I'd just deleted the partition on the external drive, not the internal HD. :eek:

I unplugged it, and have done nothing to it, so the data must still be recoverable.

How can I repair the partition?

Craig321 · 4 Aug 2007 at 01:52

There are a few good looking results when you enter "recover deleted partition " in to Google.

LewisStuart · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:09

You could also use GetDataBack,

Once you've installed xp (on the riight drive) plug the external drive and run GetDataBack

Hawk Tuah · 4 Aug 2007 at 02:14

Phew. Did it. Thanks for the help guys. Managed to find something from a google search. Its only my server I'm reinstalling. My main PC and laptop are fine. If anyone has this problem in the future, the program I used was called...

Active Partition Recovery.

Worked a treat. If you're having problems locating it, let me know (email in sig) and I'll help you out.