Question for anyone who knows......

[painhertz]

So...I accidentally deleted the partition on a hard drive with a lot of important data on it and am wondering if all of the data is completely gone or if there is a way/software that can be used to recover the data that was on the partition. Thanks in advance.

[xxxlewisxxx11]

It can be, try not to download anything or else it won't be recoverable or it will be corrupted

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid ... ou+deleted

[painhertz]

But this is different, it's not deleted files, it's an entire hard drive partition removed.

(The is nothing to boot from on the drive to try any of those steps......) I'm in the process of installing windows on another drive and have the one with the lost data slaved to it.

[shubla]

http://bit.ly/1OpQcHG
And you can get pretty good results already!!

[painhertz]

http://bit.ly/1OpQcHG
And you can get pretty good results already!!

I need help, not smartass' . go fuck yourself. Now to anyone who has personally DEALT with the same problem......

[borka]

this might help:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

mighty tool - be carefull - hth

I'd go with booting a Live CD
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

contains testdisk also - the CD (gparted) is also fine for secure erase on SSD

[painhertz]

this might help:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

mighty tool - be carefull - hth

I'd go with booting a Live CD
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

contains testdisk also - the CD (gparted) is also fine for secure erase on SSD

Sweet, exactly the sort of thing I was looking for. Thanks man.

[VDZ]

So...I accidentally deleted the partition on a hard drive with a lot of important data on it and am wondering if all of the data is completely gone

If your hard disk is a book, you've just deleted the table of contents, nothing more. The only problem is that your computer really needs that table of contents to find anything. All of the data is still there as long as you don't write anything to it; if you write data to it, most of it is still there but the more you write to it, the less can be recovered (and the harder it gets to recover what's there).

But although the problem is pretty simple, actually fixing it is a huge hassle in my experience. And it's possible to mess up the recovery in such a way that your data DOES become unsalvageable. If you have to ask this question, you're probably better off having someone who knows more about this kind of stuff do this for you.

[borka]

VDZ even those who know now didn't knew once

[loftar]

So...I accidentally deleted the partition on a hard drive with a lot of important data on it and am wondering if all of the data is completely gone or if there is a way/software that can be used to recover the data that was on the partition.

If you truly only removed the partition then pretty much no harm is done. A "partition" is just a specification of a slice of the drive; removing it just removes the system's knowledge of that slice; it doesn't touch the data that was in it. If the partition is recreated in the exact same place on the drive, the data is still there and usable as it always was.

You'd need to know the previous starting sector of the partition, of course, but that can often be either trivially recreated (just after then end of the prior partition), or looked up with some simple forensics like looking for the filesystem superblock in a hex dump of the approximate area.