Drive partition missing after windows 7 reinstall

[Frogstar]

Hi Guys

I have a small problem. I have a laptop that ran windows 7. It had a hard drive partitioned C & D. Windows install and programs on C, all data on D.

I did a reinstall of windows 7 but as luck would have it, the install failed due to the machine rebooting for no apparent reason halfway through.

I started the process again and reinstalled windows.

The problem is that the new window install has lost the D drive containing all my data and displays "Free Space" in Disk management. The Free Space is where all my data is sitting. See attachement.

How do I get my D drive back without losing the data? I was thinking of trying to get the windows.old folder back online somehow.

Any advice will be appreciated

 

[gfmalan]

I have a "small" problem, that's a bit funny, sorry

Do you have 2 machines / second notebook/pc?

 

[Frogstar]

lol, yes i do have a second laptop and pc

 

[Frogstar]

managed to restore the partition using this freeware http://www.partition-tool.com/product.htm "Partition Master Free"

 

[Turbo_Aspiration]

Was just about to suggest similar software. Nice one.

Backup your important data.

 

[Frogstar]

thanks for the reply Turbo, I saw your post

 

[ginggs]

Also look at:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk