Lost partitions - HELP! 1

[ChrisMacPherson]

Hi,

Hope someone can help, think I may have lost lots of data. I needed to create some more space for Vista SP1 so I thought I would delete a partition that I never used.

I have about 9 partitions set up and I clicked on the 7th one (when looking left to right in disk management) and clicked delete partition. It then deleted 4 partitions! I can only assume these partitions were related in some way that I didn;t realise.

Can anyone tell me how to either recover the partitions or just create a new partition without deleting my data that was on the original partitions?

I really hope I haven't deleted the data on the partitions.

Chris MacPherson

 

[linney]

Did you delete an Extended Partition containing Logical Partitions inside?

Accidently deleted 1 partition, lost 3! Urgent help wanted!

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic24745.html

Data recovery.
PC Inspector

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm

http://www.restorer2000.com

http://www.runtime.org/hints.htm

Plenty of other recovery software listed here.

http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Management/Error_Checking_and_Repair/

Good luck with this, you might need it.

If you are "Lucky" perhaps you made a few backups?

 

[ChrisMacPherson]

YEEEESSSSS!!!

http://www.restorer2000.com

This program is excellent and I now have all my data back. I really appreciate the link. I had searched for hours and tried lots of dubious programs but that one is excellent and worth the price.

Recommended for anyone with similar problems. I've just restored about 30Gb of data in a few hours. Most of that time just scanning drive.

Cheers mate

Chris MacPherson