Hello,
I have accidentally deleted the only partition on my external hard drive. I have a looked through many threads on this forum but I am being very cautious because this drive behaving in a way in a rather uncommon way. The only thing that I have done to the drive since the accident couple of hours ago is scan with the different software that have been suggested in other threads and through my own search. Some programs do not see the drive at all, while others see but is unable to proceed either because this case is not compatible or they "say" you need the full version to get it done. I have 8 free/trail partition recovery software install at the moment. I can update the thread later with the list of responses from these programs.
Here are some details about the drive and its current state:
Seagate Expansion Desktop (STBV4000100)
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I have not opened up the enclosure myself but various reviews say that the drive inside is the ST4000DM000 internal drive.
Was formatted as single NTSF MBR partition and held ~1.66TB of data out of ~3.6TB total space.
Currently in Disk management the shows up as 2 separate unallocated spaces. It has been like this as son as the sole partition was deleted.
photorec recognizes the drive but there are 2 listed with 4000TB.
Here are some screenshots http://
Ideally I wish to recover the partition with the files as they were. I am willing pay for a program if need be but before that I need to have a high degree of confidence that it will actually work.
Extra info that may be related or of use:
I am running windows 8.1 Pro installed in UEFI.
EDIT:
Well I thought I made it clear but I guess not in my slight panic....
I would like my data back as well... not just getting a new partition.
I have accidentally deleted the only partition on my external hard drive. I have a looked through many threads on this forum but I am being very cautious because this drive behaving in a way in a rather uncommon way. The only thing that I have done to the drive since the accident couple of hours ago is scan with the different software that have been suggested in other threads and through my own search. Some programs do not see the drive at all, while others see but is unable to proceed either because this case is not compatible or they "say" you need the full version to get it done. I have 8 free/trail partition recovery software install at the moment. I can update the thread later with the list of responses from these programs.
Here are some details about the drive and its current state:
Seagate Expansion Desktop (STBV4000100)
http://
I have not opened up the enclosure myself but various reviews say that the drive inside is the ST4000DM000 internal drive.
Was formatted as single NTSF MBR partition and held ~1.66TB of data out of ~3.6TB total space.
Currently in Disk management the shows up as 2 separate unallocated spaces. It has been like this as son as the sole partition was deleted.
photorec recognizes the drive but there are 2 listed with 4000TB.
Here are some screenshots http://
Ideally I wish to recover the partition with the files as they were. I am willing pay for a program if need be but before that I need to have a high degree of confidence that it will actually work.
Extra info that may be related or of use:
I am running windows 8.1 Pro installed in UEFI.
EDIT:
Well I thought I made it clear but I guess not in my slight panic....
I would like my data back as well... not just getting a new partition.
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