Need Some Thoughts, Lost Partition/Data

Ya_Mi · December 29, 2020

So i hooked my old HDD from my old computer to my external hdd dock through my laptop running Windows 10.

It won't get detected at first but stupidly, i accidentally change the MBR to GPR and now i lost the partition.

I didn't do anything to the hard drive because i knew it could overwrite the data/partition contained within.

What i am doing now is trying to recover the partition using partition recovery wizard. Luckily the HDD is only 80GB and the software managed to find the partition despite the difference in partition table.

So i just want to be sure, if i somehow managed to recover the wrong partition, will it over-write the correct one? because deleted data/partition isn't really gone right? And there's no option to recover the partition to another drive, even if it is, i don't have any spare HDD.

Recovering the data is safer because i can recover it to another HDD. But it'll takes time.

As for now, the software only detect 2 lost partition so far in which i am 99% its the lost partition. I hope it won't detect another cuz it would confuse me..

What's your thoughts on this guys?

Mling · December 29, 2020

If your 80gb of data was worth anything to you, you would have it on a cheap cloud backup.

If you had a spare drive i would recommend using dd to make an exact image, but you dont so go ahead and try restore your partition. Without another drive what choice do you have.

Ya_Mi · December 29, 2020

2 minutes ago, Mling said:

If your 80gb of data was worth anything to you, you would have it on a cheap cloud backup.

If you had a spare drive i would recommend using dd to make an exact image, but you dont so go ahead and try restore your partition. Without another drive what choice do you have.

It's an old HDD, heck i even forgot what's in it.

I guess its do or nothing then...

SlashedM · December 29, 2020

2 minutes ago, Mling said:

If your 80gb of data was worth anything to you, you would have it on a cheap cloud backup.

Would, not could. For me any paid cloud storage is still expensive for me because I have no pay option.

10 minutes ago, Ya_Mi said:

So i just want to be sure, if i somehow managed to recover the wrong partition, will it over-write the correct one? because deleted data/partition isn't really gone right? And there's no option to recover the partition to another drive, even if it is, i don't have any spare HDD.

Recovering to a different drive is the best option. You can try the undelete partition, but sometimes, if its the wrong one, it can overwrite the right one. If the software you used has an option, try exploring the old partition.