Can I commit suicide now?

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Lost 450GB of data. Deleted ONE dynamic disk, and the whole thing was turned into a basic disk.

Can I commit suicide now?
 
Not now. Leave the drive as is, send me a pm and I'll send you something to get it back.
 
450 Gb of what kind of data?

Perhaps there is some way to undo the action?

let's see what people come up with.
 
Are you serious? Drive shows 465 of space, and 465 free... I'd be happy if I'd get my 140GB music.
Gary it's my laptop, movies, music, games, documents and other stuff.
 
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Khanya said:
Are you serious? Drive shows 465 of space, and 465 free... I'd be happy if I'd get my 140GB music.
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Don't use the drive. Don't put anything on it. Send me a pm if you want my help.
 
GetDataBack maybe
Data Recovery After Deleting/Recreating a Partition

When you delete a partition, only the partition table and the boot record are affected. Important structures, such as MFT and FAT are usually undamaged.

Even recreating the partition - as long as you do not format the volume - should not alter important data structures.

With GetDataBack you should be able to perform an almost perfect data recovery.
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http://www.runtime.org/recoverability.htm
 
Khanya said:
Are you serious? Drive shows 465 of space, and 465 free... I'd be happy if I'd get my 140GB music.
Gary it's my laptop, movies, music, games, documents and other stuff.
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Ja, do not try to do anything else to the drive.
Send teraside a PM and see if he can help.
Otherwise, I have also used GetDataBack before and it works great.
Theoretically all the raw data should still be lying there on the drive, it's just part of the partition table entry that has been erased.
 
Utmost worse case scenario, take your device to a data recovery expert with a clean room to do some recovery.
 
Khanya said:
Don't have R1000 lying around.
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GDB is pretty good - remember you'll need to pull out the drive & put it in another PC as a secondary drive.
You can run GDB & only need to pay if it shows it can recover the data - maybe there's cracked versions around about but for this sort of thing i'm more than happy to pay up...used it once years ago & it worked great.

Tera you giving him software or a bible?;)
 
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You should be able to get most if not all of the data back - when "space" is made available on a drive, the old data is still there until it has been written over and because it is not sequential like a VHS tape means that your chances of recovery are greater. So as everyone else has said, don't do anything more with the drive, get a data recovery program and set about the ardous task of getting your bits and bytes rearranged in to some semblance of music :)

Good luck!
 
Try accidentally corrupting a 1.5 TB hdd with critical civil engineering designs, and then corrupting the backup of that data 5 minutes later, all at 3 am in the morning.

You must recover the data before the morning, but the lightning destroyed your only modem, so no internet nor any recovery tools of any kind. You try an ubuntu LiveCD, but alas it contains no gparted or anything relevant. So you begin browsing the web on your cellphone, too scared to touch the computer again lest something else also corrupts.

A calm mind prevails: Disconnect hdd's and connect an old 200 GB, install Win7. Download the latest version of testdisk on your phone, try to do a USB copy to the pc, which fails because you are running Android 2.1. Borrow another phone and retry, succeed. Run testdisk with one of the corrupted hdds connected again, recover original partition table, write new partition table. Rejoice!
 
I prefer R-Studio, recovered a farked raid with that GDB didnt like it at all.
 
Catal said:
Try accidentally corrupting a 1.5 TB hdd with critical civil engineering designs, and then corrupting the backup of that data 5 minutes later, all at 3 am in the morning.

You must recover the data before the morning, but the lightning destroyed your only modem, so no internet nor any recovery tools of any kind. You try an ubuntu LiveCD, but alas it contains no gparted or anything relevant. So you begin browsing the web on your cellphone, too scared to touch the computer again lest something else also corrupts.

A calm mind prevails: Disconnect hdd's and connect an old 200 GB, install Win7. Download the latest version of testdisk on your phone, try to do a USB copy to the pc, which fails because you are running Android 2.1. Borrow another phone and retry, succeed. Run testdisk with one of the corrupted hdds connected again, recover original partition table, write new partition table. Rejoice!
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That sounds insane!!!

:D Well done!
 
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