Recover Deleted Partition on External Hard Drive

ebayguy2006 · Nov 7, 2016

I was installing a new hard drive, and had partition issues(6TB) not letting me use all of the storage. So upon fixing this with windows 7 install disk. I was deleting partitions reinstall/create full use of the new drive.

However,
I had my external hard drive 5TB hooked up and on, and when I "deleted" each partition showing on the windows software install disc, I MUST have deleted my external drive as well.

I do not believe I formatted it. None of my computers will recognize it now. Wont even auto install drivers to operate.

Anyone have any ideas of what I did, or how to recover or undo this?

Under Disk Management, it shows the drive as 5TB unallocated and does not appear to be formatted.

AppleGwava · Nov 7, 2016

Try recuva ,Zar X or other recovery software,though im not sure if they can recover without a proper formatting.Still,its worth a go

AppleGwava · Nov 7, 2016

I am currently out of the house right now but i will update you with my list of recovery software that i have collated when i get back

ebayguy2006 · Nov 7, 2016

Ok Thanks.
I thought it is harder to recover once you re-formatted.
I believe all I did was erase/delete the partition again.

AppleGwava · Nov 7, 2016

ebayguy2006 :

Some recovery tools are format specific(exfat,fat32 blah blah)i got a scare once when it auto formatted the drive but no data was lost

To be on the extreme safe side,my standard way is to make a bit level copy of the drive.But those recovery tools should work,i would recommend running a few as each has it strengths

ebayguy2006 · Nov 7, 2016

I just need to find a free partition recovery program.

Anyone know of any now a days?

Again, I only deleted the partition file (sole partition). Just need to recover that file, and all should be fine since no formatting occurred.

Data is File System: RAW

AppleGwava · Nov 7, 2016

ebayguy2006 :

Recuva,Zar X are the best for me(and free)

ebayguy2006 · Nov 7, 2016

Ive heard a bit more about Recuva & Puran, but dont both recover via long scan, and require another device to transfer the found data too?
Ive heard of partition recovery software from looking back at similar forum post here from 2007 and 2010. All of the free software's mentioned back than are now no longer free. I read it took only few min to scan and recover the partition, allowing everything to work as normal.

These other options mentioned, take 24-48 hours, since we talking 5TB of data to scan completely, and more time to transfer it all.
Seems like a longer, harder way to resolve this issue.

D_Know_WD · Nov 9, 2016

Hi there ebayguy2006,

The safest approach, except for data recovery company, would be to save all the recovered data on another drive. That way, you will avoid any data being overwritten.

Here's a list of free tools: https://www.lifewire.com/free-data-recovery-software-tools-2622893

Hope any of these would help,
D_Know_WD

ebayguy2006 · Nov 26, 2016

D_Know_WD :

None of these are specific to partition rebuilding or recovery. They are for data recovery. My data is now in RAW form and has no MRB/Partition which is need to form the files from scattered data.

Does anyone know a really good free or pay program that exist?

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