Partition not visible in My computer<<Used diskpart clean only.


  1. Posts : 15
    win7 x32 pro.
       #1

    Hi everyone,

    I made the mistake of using diskpart clean (only NOT clean all) command,

    on my local hard disk, so the command deleted the partition that does not contain

    the OS and gave me an error message that it couldn't delete the partition

    that has the OS. since then I tried using testdisk and it does detect my deleted


    partition and i choose to write a new partition table option and reboot


    but still i can't seem to recover that partition that has my graduation

    photos that i have no back up for.

    In the attached images you'll see that the partition is intact and i can even see

    its content and but i don't know what's going on!

    please guys, any nice help would be appreciated..

    Thanks in advance!

    P.S:

    EASEUS is not able to recover since it says that "existing" and doesn't even recognised as

    deleted or lost by it, so you can only browse the deleted partition but not recover.
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Partition not visible in My computer&lt;&lt;Used diskpart clean only.-untitled.png   Partition not visible in My computer&lt;&lt;Used diskpart clean only.-untitled1.png  
    Last edited by Brink; 30 Oct 2011 at 23:26. Reason: merged
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  2. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #2

    Hello Salih,

    If you mean the 3.99 GB unallocated space in your screenshot, then you might see if you may be able to pick up at step 7 in OPTION TWO of the tutorial below to restore the partition and recover the data on it afterwards.

    Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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  3. Posts : 15
    win7 x32 pro.
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Brink said:
    Hello Salih,

    If you mean the 3.99 GB unallocated space in your screenshot, then you might see if you may be able to pick up at step 7 in OPTION TWO of the tutorial below to restore the partition and recover the data on it afterwards.

    Convert a Dynamic Disk to a Basic Disk

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
    Thanks brink for your reply. No I meant the one on its right, the one that is the first

    in the disk management.
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  4. Posts : 15
    win7 x32 pro.
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Anyway, it was simply not assigned. now it's there.
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  5. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #5

    That's great news. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. :)
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  6. Posts : 15
    win7 x32 pro.
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Seems after all that diskpart clean (only NOT clean all) does not zero the sectors and only delete the partition table

    but not the data.
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  7. Posts : 71,977
    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
       #7

    That's correct. "Clean" only deletes the partitions, and marks the data as deleted, while "clean all" does that and a secure erase of the data on it.

    Disk - Clean and Clean All with Diskpart Command
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  8. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
       #8

    From what I understand, a "clean" actually zeroes out the first 1MB and the last 1MB of the entire drive (2048 sectors each).

    Since the MBR and partition table live in sector 0 and the first partition usually begins at sector 63 (or sometimes 2048 in the case of Vista/7), the disk is effectively wiped out and reset to "uninitialized" condition.
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