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Partition Magic destroyed my partition.
Situtation: I have one hard drive in my laptop, split into a C: partition for my Win7 installation, and D: partition for my files and documents. Used Partition Magic without thinking; ignored compatibility warnings like a fool, etc etc.
My D: partition disappeared, C: seems to work fine.
I've been trolling the internet and tried to use TestDisk, but the problem is that TestDisk guides are under the assumption it will just ask you to fix your partitions. Didn't happen that way for me - the Quick Search didn't find D, however TestDisk's "deeper search" for some reason shows the missing D: partition as a normal, existing, primary partition and C: as deleted. This is obviously not the case, so I didn't know what to do.
If it's worth anything, TestDisk did mention that the two partitions were overlapping with each other. Other recovery software such as EasyUs Partition Recovery didn't work either and showed me the same result (it can't recover overlapping partitions)
Any tips on how to fix this? The data is still there, I can see it using file listing in TestDisk, I just don't know what to do to fix it.
Edit:// Before anyone asks, yeah, I've seen D: drive missing in win7 due to partiton magic - Windows 7 Help Forums. Doesn't help, because again, TestDisk doesn't just magically find my partition during Quick Search and lists the wrong partition as "deleted" during Deeper Search.