Accidentally removed/deleted drives from harddisk.


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    Accidentally removed/deleted drives from harddisk.




    I used four drives in my hard-disk. I needed to extend volume for my C drive. So using the Disk management utility I was trying to shrink the drive F (as it was very next to C, as in Disk management). But something happen accidental here. I found that two of my drives E & F went missing after the operation. Also my laptop suddenly restarted (after perform a checking task). I am not sure how this happened and looking for a way to recover the lost partitions as they are seen still exist, including the data.

    I was only trying to shrink around 283 mb of volume from a drive with 138 gb, as an experiment basis, to see it work. On that process the drives were lost and those are not shown into my windows now. Using a software EaseUS Partition Master, I could still see the drives still exist as they contain the data as used spaces, and also show the unallocated space of 283 mb but I am not finding a way how could I …… recover my partition without affecting the data. Please help.
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    Hello and welcome mehsidd mate some system specs please System Info - See Your System Specs

    But for starters try Recuva https://www.piriform.com/recuva

    Personally I like Partition Wizard to do this stuff easy and reliable. Best Free Partition Manager Freeware and free partition magic for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista and Windows XP 32 bit & 64 bit. MiniTool Free Partition Manager Software Home Edition.

    see pic
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    Thanks, for resolving the issue. Dont know exactly how it solved but after tried to assign one of the drive a letter with partition wizard; then after restarting got both of my drives back at work. Great help.
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    Well done mate sounds like you did all the footwork yourself. Keep Partition Wizard handy as I find it is good for all sorts of functions including what you had to do, wiping drives, and surface testing them - plus a whole heap more.:)
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    I liked the software so much that I voted for it in the following website (voted first time there):
    MiniTool Partition Wizard Alternatives and Similar Software - AlternativeTo.net
    Its the site where I look for the best alternative software's. The likes here are equivalent with the usefulness of the products. Cheers
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    Yep I like the data recovery tools too though never had to use them yet but have been meaning to:)

    That site you linked looks worth a look at too - thanks for that!
    John
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