Partition missing?

[ringo]

My friend on his PC (win7) has one HDD (C - Windwos, D - storage). He told me that one morning when he turned on PC he couldn`t find his D partiotion. In Disk management his partition is listed as free space. System restore is turned off. Is there a way to fix this, to save his files?

[PrinzyXX]

So its one hard drive partitioned into 2 letters..? Why..?

But yes there are ways to recover it either through paid partition recovery software or digital forensics. I've used both active@ and EaseUS recovery software without issue to save accidentally deleted partitions.

[ringo]

3 hours ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

So its one hard drive partitioned into 2 letters..? Why..?

But yes there are ways to recover it either through paid partition recovery software or digital forensics. I've used both active@ and EaseUS recovery software without issue to save accidentally deleted partitions.

Why not, one partition for windwos other for backup/storeage. So no nothing like some windows trick in this situation, only that program?

[PrinzyXX]

9 hours ago, ringo said:

Why not, one partition for windwos other for backup/storeage. So no nothing like some windows trick in this situation, only that program?

Because it over complicates things and can cause problems like the one your friend has run into...One letter per drive...Only software or digital forensics could recover the data, but i suspect the reason this happened in the first place is a multi letter assignment to a singular drive. Plus a backup to a different letter on the same hard drive wont protect the data if the hard drive fails, and speed of the hard drive is hurt by using a multi letter assignment for different partitions on the same drive. Going forward if he's able to recover the partition, to go back to a singular letter on the drive, and if he wants a backup, to get another hard drive thats separate so the backup isnt actually pointless and a waste of space...