Recover Deleted Partition?

[Gorrillasnot]

I made a dumb mistake.
Was going to install Windows 7 on a PC that had 2 500GB HDDs. Win7 was to go on the first drive and drive 2 was storage with my backups saved to it.

I boot with the Win7 DVD and delete the partition on the first drive then create a new one...I stop right there as I remember the first drive is actually my backup drive

My backup drive is SATA and my boot drive is IDE (reason being is my original boot drive is in the rma process so I used a spare IDE temporarily) anyway Win7 showed the SATA drive first and thats the one I deleted the partition on.
I then created a new partition with the 100MB system reserved partition, but I caught the mistake before formating.

My question is is there anyway I can get back my old partition ( the drive had just 1 partition) or am I out of luck?


thanks

 

[PowerYoga]

I'd use some sort of data recovery software. The one I used to use is getdataback back in the XP days, not sure if they have support for win7. I doubt you can just restore the partition and look like nothing has ever happened though, but if there's something out there that does it I'd love to know too.

 

[Puppies04]

I may be wrong but looking at how much companies charge to recover lost data, probably not. Good luck though.

 

[bruceb]

Try the software here:

http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery...oftware/free-windows-7-partition-recovery.htm

 

[Gorrillasnot]

thanks for the responses everyone. After trying most of the free recovery tools I gave up on trying to restore the deleted partition and instead used a program I found on a bootCD and was able to recover my files individually. It was a long tedious process but it worked so all is good.

thanks

 

[bononos]

thanks for the responses everyone. After trying most of the free recovery tools I gave up on trying to restore the deleted partition and instead used a program I found on a bootCD and was able to recover my files individually. It was a long tedious process but it worked so all is good.

thanks

I had a similar problem recently (partition recovery) and was able to recover my data (using Easus, I'm sure others will work fine as well) with no fuss, took all of 5mins to get the partitions back.