Repairing a GPT partition

TheByt3

July 1, 2012 10:25:00 PM

I have 3 drives in my pc, an SSD and two harddrives that are 2 TB each.

The 2 TB drives are GPT drives and accidentally in one of the drives I deleted the partition table that held the information about the disk and made it recognisable by windows.

Here is a picture from windows Disk Management: http://sdrv.ms/NlScyl in yellow is the deleted partition and the drive in question.

So anyone knows any tools or any way to restore a GPT partition?

Note that normal solutions like using the cmd with windows commands or the windows CD won't work I have already tried.

Thank you!

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nhasian

July 2, 2012 5:14:02 AM

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TheByt3

July 2, 2012 11:17:49 AM

It's not working at all

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Hawkeye22

Storage Expert

July 2, 2012 5:30:13 PM

You can try easeus partition recovery. The chart on this page seems to show that it may not work with GPT disks, although it shows it's free data recovery program can use GPT disks. Check them out.

http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

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quesionboy

July 3, 2012 11:53:32 AM

TheByt3 said:

I have 3 drives in my pc, an SSD and two harddrives that are 2 TB each.

The 2 TB drives are GPT drives and accidentally in one of the drives I deleted the partition table that held the information about the disk and made it recognisable by windows.

Here is a picture from windows Disk Management: http://sdrv.ms/NlScyl in yellow is the deleted partition and the drive in question.

So anyone knows any tools or any way to restore a GPT partition?

Note that normal solutions like using the cmd with windows commands or the windows CD won't work I have already tried.

Thank you!

If your partition was deleted by accident and do not format or rewrite too much on it, you could try use the Partition Assistant Home edtition which is free and integrate the function "partition recovery". However, if your partition has been formated or rewriten too much, you could only ask help for some professional data recovery software.
Here is an article about "how to recover deleted partition" Hope this could help you

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