Recovering a deleted partition

Adam

Adam

Adam

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So today I made a bit of a mistake and formatted a drive that contained some files I require. It's a 250gb drive on my microserver and it was split in to 2 partitions, one around 50gb for windows the other 200gb for data.

During the windows 7 installation I removed both partitions and created a single partition and then installed windows. Do I stand any chance in getting the data back from the original 200gb partition?

I'm running test disk right now and it's taking a while which is fine, but I'm unsure if it can get me out of jail with this one.
 
You *may* have saved yourself somewhat if your new Windows installation has only overwritten the first part of the disk and "missed" the location of the original 200GB data partition - it depends what you installed altogether and where the temp files were splattered during the setup procedure.

I'd give it a try with the demo version of GetDataBack for NTFS - the full version (required to actually recover files) isn't free, but it's more effective than anything else I've tried to date.
 
Let's hope so.

Testdisk is scanning and will rebuild the partitions. If this doesn't work I'll try Photorec and then your suggestion. Happy to try anything!
 
Wow testdisk is incredible. It took me a few tries to work out how to use it but it's recovered the entire partition I deleted and it doesn't look like I have lost anything at all. Got me out of jail there, I had 2 years of my son's life in pictures on that hard drive and a bad decision and being impatient nearly cost me something I would never be able to replace.

Thanks for your help everyone :)
 
If you weren't already using it, was going to suggest Testdisk. It's a great little program :) Nice that it's free too!
 
Adam said:
Wow testdisk is incredible. It took me a few tries to work out how to use it but it's recovered the entire partition I deleted and it doesn't look like I have lost anything at all. Got me out of jail there, I had 2 years of my son's life in pictures on that hard drive and a bad decision and being impatient nearly cost me something I would never be able to replace.

Thanks for your help everyone :)
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Get a backup sorted as soon as possible.
 
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