Deleted partition problem

I did some stupid things lately on my computer and i accidentaly deleted both of my partitions on hard drive. i had one for OS and one when i keeped all my files, including all of my programming project , web sites that i made, around 50K photos that i made, music that i recorded and edited, basically all that means something for me. and OFC i didn't have a backup of all this things. :( And now i am looking for a solution for my problem. So, is there a way to return my data , cause i deleted partitions and formated them. Thank you.

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asked Sep 21 '11 at 18:15

Ivan Tomica
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If you can get the hard drive to another, working computer, you should be able to use undelete software to find the actual data still living on the disk, and copy it to some other location.

I am sure other posters will have their recommendations to what undelete program to use, as I actually do not recall the solution I use when this kinda of data loss happens.

Once you recover the data, then you can go on and format and install your operating system. PLEASE do NOT try to write ANY data to the disk until you have found a way to at least check it with some kind of undeleter. Otherwise, I can assure you, you WILL destroy some of your data even by a basic formatting.

Good luck. I know the pain of data being lost due to partition incidents. :(

answered Sep 21 '11 at 18:42

Kurisu
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Problem is that i already created new partitions and installed OS. And now i am doomed, at least i think so.

(Sep 21 '11 at 18:51) Ivan Tomica

Odds are quite a bit of data, sadly, is lost. However, there is also good chance that what was overwritten was mostly either program data, operating system files, or just any other "replacable" data, meaning you have a decent chance still to get MOST of your data back.

Look for a freeware undelete program, and see what you can dig up from your drive. Till you fill it with data, the old stuff is still there. There is hope for a good portion of your data, still. :D

(Sep 21 '11 at 18:55) Kurisu

thank you for your support. i will try everything what is in my power. what i regret most are my photos which were very important to me, and now i can't just visit same locations and take same pictures. same things with some of my projects, luckily some of the projects are stored on web so i can download them from my host easily, and other things not so easy, i will try now with one "utility" called "hiren's boot cd" one prof from my ex school recommended it to me. so i will give it a shot

(Sep 21 '11 at 19:00) Ivan Tomica

0	Check here: http://www.partition-recovery.com/ They seem to have several tools for recovering files, and even entire partitions. answered Sep 21 '11 at 18:39 Jim Hill 56●3

You could try FTK Imager - it's a forensic computing tool so is pretty powerful (and free!). Using FTK create an image of the disk and then either browse through the image (which will look similar to the standard windows folder system) or actually mount the image within FTK, then just plug in a USB/external HDD/whatever storage you want and find and copy all the files across from the image to the storage media.

Edit: If you try FTK make sure you image the physical drive, not a logical one (a partition), and this will mean every file on the drive is copied. Then you just need to find them :P

answered Sep 23 '11 at 06:38

osiris
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edited Sep 23 '11 at 06:40

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