I lost a partition

[AgentJean]

No Idea what happened here but my E drive, a 20gig NTFS partition of my hard drive went "missing" it shows up in my computer but when I try to access it it says "the drive is not formated". Is there anyway I can recover this drive? Are there any free tools I can use?

 

[concreteDonkey]

Dunno how much it will help, but you could download the free trial of PartitionMagic?

I once used Get Data Back to recover most of the data after I accidently formatted the wrong partition. It's not free, but where there's a will, there's a way *I do not condone software piracy*

 

[AgentJean]

Originally posted by: concreteDonkey
Dunno how much it will help, but you could download the free trial of PartitionMagic?

I once used Get Data Back to recover most of the data after I accidently formatted the wrong partition. It's not free, but where there's a will, there's a way *I do not condone software piracy*

I already have Partition Magic 8. How do I recover my files? It see the drive as a unformated parttion. All I need is a table or something. I think

 

[AgentJean]

I just used FindNTFS and it looks like my files are still intacted.

How do I go about copying these files. The instructions for FindNtfs are confusing.

 

[AgentJean]

I think I figured it out. I just hope everything is safe.

 

[AgentJean]

. It won't recover NTFS encrytped files. Am I totally screwed now?

 

[concreteDonkey]

Originally posted by: concreteDonkey
I once used Get Data Back to recover most of the data after I accidently formatted the wrong partition. It's not free, but where there's a will, there's a way *I do not condone software piracy*

Just been looking about, it was GetDataBack for NTFS that I used (icon is like an orange and white buoyancy ring). Got vast majority of about 30GB of data back for free.

I would send you the program files but, funnily enough, they're on the hard drive I can't use at the moment (check this thread)

 

[chusteczka]

Originally posted by: AgentJean
. It won't recover NTFS encrytped files. Am I totally screwed now?

As long as your operating system is intact, it should have the necessary encryption keys to decrypt your files. Encryption can disrupt the recovery process though. It may be best to perform a byte for byte copy to another drive and work from that.

What you really want is someway to restore the partition.

See if any of these help:

• Active Partition Recovery
• Partition Table Doctor
• Free Partition Recovery Tools
• Restore Partition Google search