ok, just deleted main partition with all my work ever on (not written to disc) help

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deleted the partition on my 250gb icy box when installing windows by accident

didn't format it or anything, just chose delete.


really want my stuff back! where do i go from here!

(windows based tools prefered)
 
i've got loads of hard drives here basically

i forgot to integrate my SATA driver into my xpcd, and forgot to turn off my icybox (i've been testing nlite installs all day)

i saw one drive there, clicked 'delete partition' then realised, and exited.

i did NOT continue with the install :), i just F3'd out and resumed with my current install -the icy box doesn't have an installation of windows on it, just a lot of data that i need (its my backup drive basically)

so the only 'damage' i've done is removing the partion (it only had one) i didn't choose to format the drive at all

then i ran to the forums to ask
 
what i'd like to do is just click 'remake partition' and have all my data still there as i know its not damaged

dont want to go through the process of recovering it all to another drive first..

can partition magic help me out?
 
bledd. said:
what i'd like to do is just click 'remake partition' and have all my data still there as i know its not damaged
Click to expand...

If you let TestDisk search the drive and it does find the partition, you can browse through the drive to see if everything is there before you start writing anything to the partition table.
 
Hey bledd. I made a similar mistake a while ago. While formatting a new HDD I rather foolishly forgot to remove the Windows HDD. I went ahead and started a quick zero-fill of the drive since although it was "new" it was second-hand from a mate.

This particular utility on quick zero-fill basically trashes the first few MB of the HDD making it appear to be formatted. When I went to reboot my PC and saw lots of zeros I realised I did something rather silly :p

I used Partition Doctor [I think] and it managed to fix my MBR, MFT and the Partition Table.

Unfortunately the zero-fill nuked some Windows sys files too so I had to reformat my C partition and reinstall Windows. Before doing this though I slaved the drive on my mates PC and recovered my data with ease.

In the end I reformatted the whole drive and restored all the data from the backups. I could have carried on without reformatting everything, but I was getting some weird errors which I could only put down to the Partition Table not being quite right.

However, the new tables were good enough for me to recover my data :)

The lesson learned is to disconnect ALL drives except the one you are working on and to ALWAYS double-check the drive name you are working on. Maxtor 6Y819923 vs STQ276772782. If I had taken just 2 seconds to check before wacking enter :rolleyes:

SiriusB
 
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