How can I recover a deleted partition on an external hard drive?
I was wondering if anyone can help, I have been using diskpart utility trying to set my friends pc to boot from an external drive and I accidentally deleted the partition with the diskpart clean option which wiped out all of the data in the hard drive. I have tried EaseUS data recovery software it can scan the data and the deleted partition on the hard drive but I have to buy a license in order to recover all the files. I have also tried testdisk.exe, photorec (its scanning forever), AOMEI (program hangs).
Is there any other ways I can restore the deleted partition in my external hard drive? Are any free software that are easy to use that are guaranteed to work?
I would appreciate any advice.
Is there any other ways I can restore the deleted partition in my external hard drive? Are any free software that are easy to use that are guaranteed to work?
I would appreciate any advice.
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philz1982
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Thanks Phil
This one also requires a license in order restore my data it's worth paying for though. Are there any freeware that don't require a license code recover the data?"It's better to try and fail than to fail to try." Unkown
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Verities
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The longest one stop shop I've used since entering the IT world:
Hiren's BootCD 15.2 - All in one Bootable CD » www.hiren.info
Try Parted Magic. You may need to read some of the articles on Hiren's site about data recovery or Google steps on how to do it if you're not familiar with Linux rescue disks. -
dou2ble
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Spinrite. I haven't used it for this particular issue but you can check.
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ImYourOnlyDJ
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I would take another look at testdisk. I helped someone that deleted their extra NTFS partition and formatted the hard drive with two new NTFS and EXT partitions. I had to do a deep scan with testdisk but it found the partition. Just had to copy the files over to my external hard drive for near 100% data recovery for free
. I used linux when I did the recovery but I'd assume its the same process.
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ImYourOnlyDJ
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Also if testdisk can't do it you can use Photorec but as you said it takes forever. After that you may have to resort to a commercial product. I would also recommend doing a full image of the drive if possible and work from that. I used dd rescue (linux) and it copied my deleted partitions and all.
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philz1982
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