***Deleted my partition, questions HELP PLEASE:(***

[deadsheep]

i forgot that my secondary storage drive was in my pc when i was formatting to vista....i, like an idiot, deleted the partition on the drive, but did not format. now the drive is sitting unplugged and im not sure what to do. i dont know if i should use a data recovery tool, or if there are any programs that can restore the partition back to normal. if you have any suggestions please help, i have everything on that drive. also, please mention any programs or tools that you would recommend.

thankyou

 

[lejay]

I'm guessing you've reformatted it with NTFS? In this case I don't think theres any nice way to recover the entire partition. Your best bet would be to do per file recovery/undelete.

I've used R-Studio NTFS with success in the past. They have a trial where you can see if it can find your files. You wont be able to recover them without the full version, though.

EDIT: I am assuming the previous file system format was ntfs. If it was fat, or even ext2 you clearly shouldn't use the ntfs version

 

[deadsheep]

yeah its ntfs, i tried pandoras recovery tool and it doesnt recognize the harddrive:\

 

[lejay]

Does windows recognize the harddrive?

 

[4Ryan6]

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

 

[deadsheep]

windows recognizes the drive only in hardware manager....but it doesnt see it in my computer.