Accidentally Removed Hard Drive Partition

[RayM]

I made a serious mistake about 3 hours ago - accidentally romeved a 80GB
NTFS partition with contain precious personal data. Is there any chance to
recover the hard drive? Any suggestion is very mucch appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Shutdown the PC immediately and unplug the AC power supply. Remove the harddisk and hand it to a data recovery company. You have a 50-50 chance to recover the data but may not be 100% recover.

Peter


----- RayM wrote: -----

I made a serious mistake about 3 hours ago - accidentally romeved a 80GB
NTFS partition with contain precious personal data. Is there any chance to
recover the hard drive? Any suggestion is very mucch appreciated.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I made a serious mistake about 3 hours ago - accidentally romeved a 80GB
NTFS partition with contain precious personal data. Is there any chance to
recover the hard drive?

What I would use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35
shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

Boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on
Partition work.

You should now be able to select the physical drive on the left (HD0 -
HD1 for a second hard disk) and see the 'Free space' on it. If you
click that to select it, there should be an Undelete button, which will
do the job if anything will

 

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

Ray;
See this link for possible solutions:
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/datrec.htm

 

[KN]

What do you mean by remove? Did you format it?

If you have another computer or another harddrive with
windows on there, get Easyrecovery Pro and install the
software and the "removed" harddrive on that same
computer. Then, use the software to recover your data.
I've used the program before and it works great, even if
you've formated your harddrive. Here is there website
www.ontrack.com. The program is priced a little high but
it's worth it and probably much cheapper than getting a
professional to do it.

KN

 

[RayM]

After struggling for a day, I managed to get the hard drive fixed and it
seems to work as normal as before.

I tried out various suggested utilities but eventually decided to go for the
Active@ Partition Recovery after numerous testing. TestDisk failed to detect
the backup partition on the drive somehow. I was not able to find a
legitimate copy of the Active@ Partition Recovery after carried out an
extentive search on the net. Ultimately, for the first time in my life, I
have to pay due respect to the shareware by forking out US$29.99 for a
licensed copy. Bottom line it works though not quite entirely. It doesn't
recover the MBR and Boot Sector. I've to manually execute "fixmbr" and
"fixboot" from Windows Recovery Console.

Thanks for those who come forward with suggestion.