Deleted Partitions - Need to recover

[Moveslikelagger]

So one day I was reinstalling windows and disaster struck... I deleted all the partitions on a hard drive that was not meant to have my OS. The HDD had personal data. I realized my mistake and I stopped doing anything to it, even formatting it. The hard drive does not appear on windows explorer, but it does appear in disk management as having a "RAW" file system. I'm trying to use recuva to get my information back but when choosing the desired HDD, recuva tells me it's "unable to determine file system type". I would appreciate some tips or advice on what to do. Should I give the HDD a format? Should I use another data recovery program?

I'm just being very cautious not to ruin any information I may be able to recover. FYI, I'm trying to recover data from a western digital black 1TB HDD, if that makes a difference. Thanks.

I attached some screenshots of the issue:

 

[Matt_98]

3 minutes ago, Moveslikelagger said:

So one day I was reinstalling windows and disaster struck... I deleted all the partitions on a hard drive that was not meant to have my OS. The HDD had personal data. I realized my mistake and I stopped doing anything to it, even formatting it. The hard drive does not appear on windows explorer, but it does appear in disk management as having a "RAW" file system. I'm trying to use recuva to get my information back but when choosing the desired HDD, recuva tells me it's "unable to determine file system type". I would appreciate some tips or advice on what to do. Should I give the HDD a format? Should I use another data recovery program?

I'm just being very cautious not to ruin any information I may be able to recover. FYI, I'm trying to recover data from a western digital black 1TB HDD, if that makes a difference. Thanks.

I attached some screenshots of the issue:

 

 

It would probably need to be sent to a data recovery specialist

[DaBeggad]

you need to format it to ntfs and you should be doen... you lose the data but cant fix that i think

[Naeaes]

Recuva is pretty basic. As you can see, you need a working partition to recover from. In these kinds of situations I've had lots of luck with PhotoRec (free but doesn't recover folder structure and it's commandline) and EaseUS (Paid but can recover folder structure, file names and so on and has a graphical UI)

 

Edit: Oh, yeah. Don't format it before you've got your data back. You're also going to need a secondary drive to recover to. Do not write onto this drive. 

[oskarha]

Try using TestDisk, it will help to to recover a raw partition.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

[Moveslikelagger]

7 hours ago, Naeaes said:

Recuva is pretty basic. As you can see, you need a working partition to recover from. In these kinds of situations I've had lots of luck with PhotoRec (free but doesn't recover folder structure and it's commandline) and EaseUS (Paid but can recover folder structure, file names and so on and has a graphical UI)

 

Edit: Oh, yeah. Don't format it before you've got your data back. You're also going to need a secondary drive to recover to. Do not write onto this drive. 

I have heard of these. I will try it. Thanks

 

 

7 hours ago, oskarha said:

Try using TestDisk, it will help to to recover a raw partition.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

I quickly read through the wiki. Just to understand, I wouldn't be recovering the data, but instead rebuilding the partitions? Thanks

[oskarha]

25 minutes ago, Moveslikelagger said:

I have heard of these. I will try it. Thanks

 

 

I quickly read through the wiki. Just to understand, I wouldn't be recovering the data, but instead rebuilding the partitions? Thanks

You would be recovering the ntfs patiton, hence getting your data back

[Moveslikelagger]

43 minutes ago, oskarha said:

You would be recovering the ntfs patiton, hence getting your data back

I'm using it now. Currently I only have my OS drive C: and the other HDD that I want to recover. Testdisk is showing me 3 disks, so I'm unsure of what to select here:

Any help? Thanks

[oskarha]

24 minutes ago, Moveslikelagger said:

I'm using it now. Currently I only have my OS drive C: and the other HDD that I want to recover. Testdisk is showing me 3 disks, so but I'm unsure of what to select here:

Any help? Thanks

the first one i think