Accidently unpartitioned my drive during XP install. 1

[Bjswift]

Recently, I had a power outage which seemed to cause my 2 sata raid 0 drives to not work correctly. I got fed up, and bought a replacement SATA drive, and was loading windows on it. I have a secondary data storage drive which during windows install, I selected it and deleted partition, kicking myself. I did not format the drive, shutdown and unplugged the drive (to make sure I didn't screw up again). I then installed windows XP on the new SATA drive, and started reloading my software. Then, I shut down, plugged the backup drive in, and turned back on my computer. Using the mananger application, I saw the drive which was unpartitioned, and partitioned it, but it seems like I can not access the data that easily. I did not format the drive. Is there any way (application, or bootable backup util (max blast)) to retrieve the data from a disk which I deleted the partition from? I hope there is, I really hate having to restore from my backups, and re-downloading all my media.

 

[G0AOZ]

The GetDataBack software is pretty good at recovering from formatted disks, deleted partitions, etc. Easy Recovery Pro is another one that works well. I have used them both. However, neither of them are free I'm afraid...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Bjswift]

Thanks G0AOZ! I used getDataBack and since I did not screw up my drive more than deleting the partition, it was able to retrieve all of the data. I dumped it onto a new drive I bought, and will re-format and copy the data back to the storage drive.

The scan of the drive (about 240gig) took about an hour and a half, then it showed me a directory list of all the files (even deleted files). I did not spend much time on the deleted files, but noticed that when restoring the deleted files some of them did not work properly. I have yet to find a restored file (non deleted) that did not work.

Thanks again!

 

[G0AOZ]

You're welcome - glad there was a happy ending for you!

ROGER - G0AOZ.