[Hard Drive] Lost partition and size

floodboy

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Please help,
suddenly, my hard drive was disconnected from windows (i have 2 hardisks, 1 is OS system, other is data (3 partitions and now gone :cry: ).
when restart..in BIOS only detected around 40MB size. Actually is 1 TB size.
in windows, only detects 1 drive and when i clicked into the drive, message came up " The Disk in drive D is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"

what should I do to uncover the partition?

thanks!
 

yearsmcir

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Well, as to your problem, I recommend you a free data recovery software.
Download: http://freeware-recovery.blogspot.com/2012/07/free-delete-format-recovery.html
It is an expert at partition recovery and most kinds of partition error such as deleted partition, formatted partition, etc will be fixed by it.
Besides, this is a FREE software. The operation is very easy, do as the blog tells you and the hassle will never bother you any more.
After the recovery you had better do a thorough check to see what is the matter.
 
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