Recovering Data

[alexjt11]

Hi,

So. I have just formatted my hardrive which had all my files on it. 

I had it partioned with an OS on part of it and my files on the other. and I extended one partition and then tried to unpartition it as I needed to recover something from the OS partition.

I've ended up deleteing the entire hardrive.

 

I've not reformatted it in disk manager its just a drive to be formatted at the moment. 

I need to know what to do. Do I take it to someone. Reinitisialise it and attempt to recover.

If I recover should I get folders back rather than it spewing out files at me. 

 

Because I deleted the volume can I get my work back.

 

Cheers

[Applefreak]

So you've only destroyed the partition table, you haven't formatted it yet?

 

My recommendation, use a free tool called "Test Disk" and recover everything on it. You need another drive with enough storage on it. This program will be slow, depending on the amount of data, you may need many hours for it to complete.

 

Here is the link

[Guest]

As long as the data was not overwritten, it's possible to recover data after a disk format. There is plenty of software claiming to be able to do that, but I have never had such a situation so I can't recommend any particular option. Just make sure to have at least a cloud backup solution for the future. 

[Applefreak]

Also for the future, do not attempt to resize an active partition, ever. 

[alexjt11]

6 minutes ago, Applefreak said:

Also for the future, do not attempt to resize an active partition, ever. 

 

7 minutes ago, Konrad_K said:

As long as the data was not overwritten, it's possible to recover data after a disk format. There is plenty of software claiming to be able to do that, but I have never had such a situation so I can't recommend any particular option. Just make sure to have at least a cloud backup solution for the future. 

So at the moment I've not remade a partition on the drive. It's just as if I had put a new drive into the PC.

 

I was told to get Acronis and make a bootable usb and recover with that stuff.

 

I guess it's good that I haven't remade a partition on the drive and the chances of getting it all back are good?

 

I also won't be doing resizing on an active partition again! Unless it's a new drive with nothing on!

 

[Applefreak]

I'd use test disk for recovering files. For me it had the highest number of files recovered.