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Solve : Deleted partition, can I get the files back ?? |
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Answer» Here's the problem: 20 minutes ago I accidentally deleted the wrong partition while setting up for a windows install, the partition in question was my external 2TB Toshiba drive with 200GB+ of photos and other valuable data... As soon as I approved the deletion process it clicked for me and I IMMEDIATELY unplugged the drive and plugged it to my laptop to run a GetDataBack scan (it's running currently while I'm writing this) without any formatting. First off Thank you for the reply. I was just about to ask if I shoud format it, now I won't thanks to you A question about that 'Find and Mount' thing, if it recovers deleted partitions it should recover the files in it too (thus working like a data recovery), correct ? Otherwise what's the point of recovering the partition ? Anyways thank you again for the reply, I shall post the results whenever I get some Quote from: DaveLembke on March 04, 2014, 02:28:42 PM Just wanted to state that I own a license of GetDataBack NTFS in a software package I bought from the vendor and the software works awesome however the interface doesn't look very professional with a dancing floppy disk with legs bitmap as its processing which may make the software look like a joke, however its ability to get the data back is no joke. It works very well. However just as Lisa stated you dont want to format this drive. So hopefully you haven't yet. GetDataBack NTFS you can download and try on it and try before you buy. It will run and display your data if it finds it, but they require you to buy it to recover the data found. Thank you for your input Yes, I am aware of how powerful GetDataBack is, I had the pleasure of using it before on my FLASH drive and it worked perfectly. The thing I was not sure about this time is that this HDD is huge in comparison and not formatted thus it has no file system yet, that confused me a bit. it took me whole day to scan it to 35% tho, I hope my laptop doesn't die on me during the night and the majority of tomorrow (it has a bad habit to die for absolutely nothing). Now I just have to free up 200GB on this laptop just to have space to store all the recovered files...Yeah I used GetDataBack NTFS on a laptop hard drive that had the clunk of death and it took almost a week to sweep the drive that was clunking and reassemble the data onto a healthy hard drive. I did this by installing the compaq laptops 2.5" IDE HDD into an old HP Vectra VL5 Desktop with a laptop to desktop HDD converter adapter, and the damaged HDD as slave config. This Pentium MMX 166Mhz box that I had running Windows 2000 Pro on 128MB RAM was perfect for this task. After I got the important data recovered for the employee at the company that I worked for as systems admin, I decided to see if it made a difference whether the process could be sped up by using a more powerful system, so I then tried this process on a Pentium 4 1.7Ghz with 384MB RAM running Windows XP Pro and it took the same amount of time to recover the data. So from this I knew that the process took this long to recover all data because this software must be reading the head as its sweeping the platters and clunking ( slamming into its mechanical limit ) and somehow through really good programming in GetDataBack's software design able to reconstruct the data onto a healthy drive drop location as SPECIFIED in the configuration prior to running. So if it took a whole day to scan to 35% then if it stays on the same amount of drive processed per day then your looking at just under 3 days to get your data possibly.Sorry I wasn't very clear. Find and mount will recover deleted partitions and allow you to mount the partition and assign a drive letter. Then you can use windows to copy what you need. Get data back scans the drive and finds deleted files and partitions this takes longer. Which on a USB 2TB drive if running on USB2 could take 2 to 3 days. Where as find and mount would find the deleted partition in minutes. Well that 'Find and Mount' found nothing... Still 9 hours left on GetDataBack, will post results on that one. Quote from: Lisa_maree on March 04, 2014, 04:47:43 PM Sorry I wasn't very clear. Find and mount will recover deleted partitions and allow you to mount the partition and assign a drive letter. Then you can use windows to copy what you need. Where would it get the space from tho ? The drive where the .iso is saved to ?---UPDATE--- GetDataBack seems to have read 212GB of data which is promissing, now recovering the files to my laptop's HDD... Will update -hopefully- shortly---Update--- GetDataBack worked like a charm, I restored all the data finally. Took some time but at least it worked. Thank you all for your suggestions P.S. How do I mark the topic as solved ? :DDAwesome to hear you got your data back A moderator can lock it if you dont have the ability to select solved towards bottom right actions. Quote from: DaveLembke on March 07, 2014, 11:22:24 AM Awesome to hear you got your data back So I contact the mods myself or will they lock this topic themselves ?I've marked it solved for you... Good to hear you retrieved your data. Quote from: patio on March 08, 2014, 07:37:45 AM I've marked it solved for you... Thank You |
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