Ugh, made a boo boo. Recover partition on thumb drive

So i'm performing aqn upgrade for a friend. Backed up his files to a thumb drive, started to reinstall windows and accidentally deleted the partition on the thumb drive.

I can recover the data using some data recovery tools but filenames are lost etc.

Is there any way to restore that partition table to the thumb drive and recover the data with the original filenames?

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WanBoy67

A couple of options:

Runtime Software
GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software

Active@ Software
Active@ Partition Recovery. Screenshots.
Active@ File Recovery Software & Web Service. Data Recovery for Windows XP 2003 2000 98 ...

It's a FAT partition so you'll have to get the specific FAT product if you go with Runtime Software. Use the trials first.

aquageek

WanBoy67 wrote: »

A couple of options:

Runtime Software
GetDataBack - Data Recovery Software

Active@ Software
Active@ Partition Recovery. Screenshots.
Active@ File Recovery Software & Web Service. Data Recovery for Windows XP 2003 2000 98 ...

It's a FAT partition so you'll have to get the specific FAT product if you go with Runtime Software. Use the trials first.

Wow, awesome, active partition recovery seems to have done the trick. Thank you.