partition went missing after ubuntu uninstall!

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hi,
I have gone experimental yesterday and installed ubuntu along side windows.But later realised that a bad idea and deleted the linux partition.Now I can be able boot into windows and everything is fine except my personal files partition d: drive just went missing from explorer......:-( but I can see 500 gb of free space in the disk management window....I have got 2 questions 1) are all my files are deleted?
2) how can I recover the partitions?


my hard disk is samsung ata 1tb ....it has 3 partitions c: f: and 100 of os space and 500 gb of free space( it cannot be allocated to any partition)
 

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thanks for the quick rly....I will post the results

update: I exactly did the same
 
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are you saying it made no change then?
If grub is gone and startup repair can't find windows, it's possible it's gone.
 

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Please post a screenshot of disk management with all fields visible.
When having ubuntu installed, did system first show grub menu or win7 bootmenu?
Now you only see win7 bootmenu (or no menu at all), correct? ubuntu not shown anymore in menu?
-----------------------
C is and was Windows 7 partition, correct?
100 of OS space: You mean the 100MB "system reserved" partition?
F has the same contents it had before?

What was in the unallocated space??? I think the ubuntu partition was there(?) Where the heck was D?
 

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actually i installed ubuntu on F: drive .it is an empty partition there no files on it....ya 100 mb of system reserved space....the only drive went missing is D drive which has my files :cry: when i try create a new simple volume of free space Capture2.JPGerror pops up!
 

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deepak7 said:
actually i installed ubuntu on F: drive .it is an empty partition there no files on it....ya 100 mb of system reserved space....the only drive went missing is D drive which has my files :cry:
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Was D located in the 546GB "free space"?
So F was ubuntu. What did you do with it. Did you delete that partition and recreate it, or did you just format it as NTFS?
 

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Kaktussoft said:
Please post a screenshot of disk management with all fields visible.
When having ubuntu installed, did system first show grub menu or win7 bootmenu?
Now you only see win7 bootmenu (or no menu at all), correct? ubuntu not shown anymore in menu?
-----------------------
C is and was Windows 7 partition, correct?
100 of OS space: You mean the 100MB "system reserved" partition?
F has the same contents it had before?

What was in the unallocated space??? I think the ubuntu partition was there(?) Where the heck was D?
Click to expand...
i uninstalled ubuntu from the F drive
 

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Download and install partition wizard Free download Magic Partition Manager Software, partition magic alternative, free partition magic, partition magic Windows 7 and server partition software - Partition Wizard Online
Take the free HOME edition. Perform a "partition recovery". Select "unallocated space" and "quick scan". Select all partitions it finds (if you think it's D drive). Also select even existing partitions!

Post disk management screenshot afterwards



How to perform Partition Recovery with partition magic? Partition Wizard Partition Recovery Video Help.
 

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deepak7 said:
Kaktussoft said:
Please post a screenshot of disk management with all fields visible.
When having ubuntu installed, did system first show grub menu or win7 bootmenu?
Now you only see win7 bootmenu (or no menu at all), correct? ubuntu not shown anymore in menu?
-----------------------
C is and was Windows 7 partition, correct?
100 of OS space: You mean the 100MB "system reserved" partition?
F has the same contents it had before?

What was in the unallocated space??? I think the ubuntu partition was there(?) Where the heck was D?
Click to expand...
i uninstalled ubuntu from the F drive
Click to expand...
ubuntu doesn't have an uninstall option at all!! Please explain what you did
 

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deepak7 said:
hi,
I have gone experimental yesterday and installed ubuntu along side windows.But later realised that a bad idea and deleted the linux partition.Now I can be able boot into windows and everything is fine except my personal files partition d: drive just went missing from explorer......:-( but I can see 500 gb of free space in the disk management window....I have got 2 questions 1) are all my files are deleted?
2) how can I recover the partitions?


my hard disk is samsung ata 1tb ....it has 3 partitions c: f: and 100 of os space and 500 gb of free space( it cannot be allocated to any partition)
Click to expand...
Did you really delete the partition and recreate the partition? Created it the same size, smaller, larger? Is and was F just adjacent to C?
 

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Kaktussoft said:
deepak7 said:
Kaktussoft said:
Please post a screenshot of disk management with all fields visible.
When having ubuntu installed, did system first show grub menu or win7 bootmenu?
Now you only see win7 bootmenu (or no menu at all), correct? ubuntu not shown anymore in menu?
-----------------------
C is and was Windows 7 partition, correct?
100 of OS space: You mean the 100MB "system reserved" partition?
F has the same contents it had before?

What was in the unallocated space??? I think the ubuntu partition was there(?) Where the heck was D?
Click to expand...
i uninstalled ubuntu from the F drive
Click to expand...
ubuntu doesn't have an uninstall option at all!! Please explain what you did
Click to expand...
I just booted with windows system repair
and launched command prompt

Use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows and did as stated and later deleted ubuntu partition through disk management
 

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deepak7 said:
Kaktussoft said:
deepak7 said:
i uninstalled ubuntu from the F drive
Click to expand...
ubuntu doesn't have an uninstall option at all!! Please explain what you did
Click to expand...
I just booted with windows system repair
and launched command prompt

Use the Bootrec.exe tool in the Windows Recovery Environment to troubleshoot and repair startup issues in Windows and did as stated and later deleted ubuntu partition through disk management
Click to expand...
So you deleted linux partition. But F is still in disk management!! How is that possible?!
 

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So you did a win7 startup repair. After that you ran disk management and ALL partitions were still there(?)
Then you deleted the linux partition which was somewhere in in 546GB free space area(?)

That's all you did?
 

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so I can't recover the data in the d drive now!
 

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so u saying I deleted d drive data ;(
 

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deepak7 said:
so u saying I deleted d drive data ;(
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Maybe... maybe not. What is on F now? It is an ntfs partition not a linux partition. You either changed the drive letter, so maybe it is what was called D previously.

Once again... did you manually recreate that F partition after deleteing the linux partition?

Did you perform a Partition Wizard "partition recovery" as asked before??
 

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I managed to revover data on d drive using testdrive software but after a reboot again windows is not booting up a black screen just blinking....what you want me to do now?
 

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intel core i5-2450m
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4.00 gb
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nvidia geforce 520mx
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generic pnp monitor
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1366*786
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samsung 1tb hard drive
Internet Speed
512 kbps
Kaktussoft said:
deepak7 said:
so u saying I deleted d drive data ;(
Click to expand...
Maybe... maybe not. What is on F now? It is an ntfs partition not a linux partition. You either changed the drive letter, so maybe it is what was called D previously.

Once again... did you manually recreate that F partition after deleteing the linux partition?

Did you perform a Partition Wizard "partition recovery" as asked before??
Click to expand...

ya I maually delted using disk management
 

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