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Any way to get my partition back?

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double_aa_ron

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The other day I was making a thumb drive into a bootable drive and lost one of the partitions on my hard drive. I was following this tutorial when I selected the wrong disk and typed "clean" removing the drive letter and making it impossible to access through Windows. I didn't format the partition so I know the information is still there. Is there any way I can reverse what I did?

I am running Windows 7.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Yes, Try testdisk. It's not very novie friendly but it's VERY powerful. Your other choice is to try the various partition managers available from Paragon, Easeus. Paragon is a very good one. Sometimes their free trails allow you to recover a partition. Easeus does offer various version for free. I think you may find that you can recovery partitions with them as well.

Another idea is to check your HDD manufacturer. They often offer Disk Cloning Utilities for free. If you are lucky, it might also offer partition recovery.

There are two types of recovery available to you. Partition recovery and file recovery (through file signatures). You want to do your best to recover the partition. Best of luck.
 
Slightly poor taste for me to point this out so I apologize, but you may be able to avoid using the tutorial in the future, and reduce the risk of things going awry, by using an ISO of the DVD and Microsoft's own tool to make a bootable USB drive installation from the ISO.

Now ideally you'd just be able to use Microsoft's own original ISO format for the software, e.g., by purchasing and downloading directly from them. That way their own USB tool will work right off the bat. But if you want to use your own plastic DVD and rip an ISO, apparently this should work to get your ISO compatible with the Microsoft bootable USB tool:

http://www.withinwindows.com/2009/11/01/use-the-windows-7-usbdvd-download-tool-with-custom-isos/
 
No. The clean command physically writes 0's to the drive. It doesn't just flag as deleted.

Your data is gone, unless you have a backup.

Despite stories you have heard, you will never get back data that has been overwritten even once.


edit: Derp, only if you do clean all does it zero the entire partition. So, if you just did clean, technically the data is still there.
 
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