Solved Recover data from an accidental diskpart / clean command

[drfalk]

Hey folks,

What I did: Within CMD>diskpart>Select disk, i ran the clean (not clean all) command on a different drive than intended, (the goal was to recover a partition of a USB thumb drive), and ended up cleaning an external data drive (3TB), and would love to find out that my data is not lost. (over 2 TB of Data).

What I've done since: I immediately cursed, and then exited the CMD before i caused any more problems. After some reading up on these forums and other forums, i ended up downloading MiniTool Partitioning Wizard, and TestDisk. Within MiniTool, I've run a quick scan, as per: How to Make Partition Recovery | MiniTool Partition Wizard Tutorial . The tool found 3 partitions, and i took a screenshot. (should be attached).

Why I'm asking for help: I'm not sure what to do now. I had approximately the unallocated amount on the right (2048.0 GB) of data.(from my screenshot). The drive is not showing up in My Computer.
Is all that is left a simple merge of the partitions?

Please point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,
-drfalk

 

[rvcjew]

Use testdisk to hunt for your lost partition. Pick the right disk it should be intel when asked what type, then pick analyse for lost partitions and see what it finds this may take a very long time. TestDisk Step By Step - CGSecurity -- Data Recovery Examples - CGSecurity If your confused about which disk to pick then post a pic of its output here.

 

[drfalk]

I ran the quick scan as instructed.

The results are as shown.
What should I do now? The website you linked instructs me to highlight each 'partition' but those 2 are not identifying themselves as partitions.

 

[rvcjew]

I ran the quick scan as instructed.

The results are as shown.
What should I do now? The website you linked instructs me to highlight each 'partition' but those 2 are not identifying themselves as partitions.

Select the bottom one and hit p and see if it shows the correct files inside.

 

[drfalk]

I attached what it shows after hitting P on the bottom one.

Doesn't look like any comprehensible file names

 

[rvcjew]

I attached what it shows after hitting P on the bottom one.

Doesn't look like any comprehensible file names

yeah, what does it find with the first option and p?

 

[drfalk]

First one shows this

 

[rvcjew]

Pick the lower one again but instead of hitting p hit enter to continue then post the what it shows please. EDIT: actually what does it show at this step before you quick search?

 

[rvcjew]

This software is also free and seems to work well for your type of problem but you will at this point need another disk to transfer your files to then you will have to reformat your messed up disk and copy your files back to it. Do you have another disk you can use to save your recovered stuff too at this time? Partition Find and Mount — free partition recovery software

 

[drfalk]

Shows this.

And yes i have an extra external hdd

Partition Find & Mount is downloaded

 

[rvcjew]

what happens if you pick deep search, you might have to find more info to pick the right one to attempt to write. Don't write anything till were sure.

 

[drfalk]

Running Deeper Scan on TestDisk overnight, will post results tomorrow

 

[rvcjew]

Running Deeper Scan on TestDisk overnight, will post results tomorrow

ok.

 

[drfalk]

This is all it says

 

[rvcjew]

If you now continue and hit p again its still all messed up? You might need to in the end use photorec to just get your files off it to your external but that would suck as it will named random things I think and I imagine you have a lot of files if it's 2TB.

 

[drfalk]

All but the 3rd Partition, the one highlighted, has either incomprehensible file names or "Can't open file system. Filesystem seems damaged." The 3rd, highlighted, partition looks like everything is there, I attached a screenshot, 2nd screenshot, of what it shows within that partition, all file names seem to be correct

 

[rvcjew]

Ok that's good I need to reread the steps now so ill post again once I get what you should do next, the one in pic 1 that's highlighted is the one you can see your files in correct?

 

[drfalk]

Ok that's good I need to reread the steps now so ill post again once I get what you should do next, the one in pic 1 that's highlighted is the one you can see your files in correct?

Yes, the 3rd NTFS one.

 

[rvcjew]

Okay you need to highlight the good one and then use this to make only the one you need to L (not D)

Using the left/right arrow keys, change the status of the selected partition from D(eleted) to L(ogical). This way you will be able to recover this partition

Then once it is correct (as L) hit enter to continue then it will say write at the bottom and you want to do it, but before you do it post a pic of what it says it will write.

 

[drfalk]

Ok, only the 3rd was switched to L, i hit enter and it shows this: