Windows lost partition letter and don't recognize format partition

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    Windows lost partition letter and don't recognize format partition


    Hi,

    I have a question.

    I formatted a partition of my harddrive but in the end not only a partition was formatted but the next partition also was gone.

    Meaning: the data is still there, but the NTFS partition isn't recognised anymore by Windows, and in diskmanager the space is now ready to assign new partition.

    In a data recovery software, I saw the not recognised partition was still recognised as 'NTFS'.

    What can I do?

    The best scenario would be to simply tell Windows somehow, there is partition with NTFS and it should assign a letter to it.
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  3. Posts : 16
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    Sure
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    Sure, (it's in dutch however).
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    Sure, (it's in dutch however).

    I formatted partition F. Then I lost my partition D (the partition of 320 Gb): No partition letter, not recognisation anymore of format.
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    Boot into "recovery environment" so F8 on boot and select "repair computer". After that select "command prompt".
    DISKPART
    SELECT DISK 0
    LIST PART

    Is ghost partition visible? Please post output
    (I live in The Neteherlands as well)
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    The recovery software you used showed it still as NTFS??? Sure it was just a simple ntfs partion. Or was it hidden, deleted or whatever?
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    Download livecd Partition Wizard Bootable CD allows user to boot computer directly to manage partition.
    and burn it to CD. Boot from it.

    Does it show the ghost partition? There's also a "recover partition" option or something like that
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  9. Posts : 16
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    This is what I get from using cmd command within Windows
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    JustBe said:
    Sure, (it's in dutch however).

    I formatted partition F. Then I lost my partition D (the partition of 320 Gb): No partition letter, not recognisation anymore of format.
    Looking at your screenshot, F: was partition 1, D: was partition 2 of a Logical drive.
    Do you have data to save in D:?
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