Just lost 450GB of data - PLEASE HELP!

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Using the Windows Installer, I just inadvertently deleted a partition with 450GB of priceless data. Yes, it was a user error, and right now I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Does anyone know of any way of undoing/recovering the partition that was deleted by the Windows Setup Manager (i.e the blue screen before the action GUI install). Please help me, you will be saving me from permanent dementia.

PLEASE!
 
data doctor recovery

expensive but worth

i formatted my pc lost 23 gig of mp3s, got them all back but only about 5 gig worked

lets hope you do better than 25% recovery
 
Weird ... I did the same thing only 2 days ago. Lucky for me the data wasn't very important so I just had a sad face for an hour :/

I'm sorry I can't help - but killa is right about recovery ... and expensive
 
no u need to download a recovery program, that might reverse it or it might just recover the lost files

make sure you have a 450 gig hdd because your cannot restore onto the same drive

i dont think 50 dolla for 450 gig of info is to bad :)


download it and try it, if it does recover then you have to buy it
 
There are professional data recovery companies out there. Maybe worth the cost? as it IS expensive. I recovered mine self a few times but will not attempt it on critical systems. Are you sure it is not just a boot sector problem? What does the bios say when you want to reboot? What if you start the PC with Mini PE-XT? A Xp startup disk from the net! You can then see if files is available and fix boot sector problems.
 
Kasyx said:
So there is no way to reverse a Windows Installer partition delete?
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Recovery programs can as long as the data was not overwritten by a new install, then you maybe can only recover some, if any, data!
 
NoADSLyet said:
There are professional data recovery companies out there. Maybe worth the cost? as it IS expensive. I recovered mine self a few times but will not attempt it on critical systems. Are you sure it is not just a boot sector problem? What does the bios say when you want to reboot? What if you start the PC with Mini PE-XT? A Xp startup disk from the net! You can then see if files is available and fix boot sector problems.
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It is not a boot sector problem because I, myself, in all my genius, hit the wrong f*cking button and deleted the partition in Windows Installer. This data isn't work-critical, but is pretty much everything I have accomplished on a computer in the last 10 years, so it is pretty critical to me.

So there is no way to reverse this? Windows Installer just wipes it, just like that?
 
NoADSLyet said:
Recovery programs can as long as the data was not overwritten by a new install, then you maybe can only recover some, if any, data!
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I haven't touched the drive since I deleted the partition, it is still sitting at the windows partition manager screen.
 
Kasyx said:
I haven't touched the drive since I deleted the partition, it is still sitting at the windows partition manager screen.
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Then it should be easy. Just do nothing till you have recovery software. Maybe just switch of the power at wall even so you are sure nothing get written to the disk. You will then have to boot with the recovery software. like to rebuild the partition. I will still recommend another 450GiG drive and try to ghost the existing drive to the new drive and work on the new drive only. That is the risk to take as if you do not do it and the recovery fails then the idea of a recovery may become difficult.
 
Easy Recovery Pro worked for me. I lost 200GB data, managed to recover everything, of which about 190GB worked properly again. 95% success rate
 
Highflyer_GP said:
Easy Recovery Pro worked for me. I lost 200GB data, managed to recover everything of which about 190GB worked properly. 95% success rate
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Thats what I use! The mini PE disk (for usb or CD) also have a older version on it. Works well for me!
 
Highflyer_GP said:
Easy Recovery Pro worked for me. I lost 200GB data, managed to recover everything, of which about 190GB worked properly again. 95% success rate
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Indeed, easy recovery pro will have a high success rate, it has saved me so many times. As NoADSLyet has said, as long as you have not overwritten anything on that partition and you will need a second drive /partition to recover the data to.
 
yup that was my problem i had reload windows over my music hahaha

anyways was happy that data doctor could still recover even after reloading windows on said drive
 
killadoob said:
yup that was my problem i had reload windows over my music hahaha

anyways was happy that data doctor could still recover even after reloading windows on said drive
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Windows is what 400 Meg ?? so the rest will still be intact and working IF the disk was defragged!
 
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