Solved Windows lost partition letter and don't recognize format partition

[JustBe]

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.

 

[theog]

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[JustBe]

Sure

 

[JustBe]

Sure, (it's in dutch however).

 

[JustBe]

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.

 

[Kaktussoft]

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)

 

[Kaktussoft]

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?

 

[Kaktussoft]

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

 

[JustBe]

This is what I get from using cmd command within Windows

 

[theog]

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:?

 

[JustBe]

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

Ok, I can still use Windows. But I don't have access to partition with all my data. Too make it more easy: My CD player doesn't work so I am using the network :-(

 

[JustBe]

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:?

D: was my 'data' partition. On F: I had another Windows installation.
C: is my windows installation, and there is one other partition where the OEM Windows is coming from.

Formatting the whole partition again might be not such a problem. I have backed up most important data.

But I prefer a solution where I can just have access again to the partition somehow. I don't have to think so hard then, if I have forgotten something.

 

[theog]

If you have no DATA to save, take look at those two tutorials:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2668-partition-volume-delete.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2670-partition-volume-extend.html

 

[Kaktussoft]

So Partition 0 Extended (Uitgebreid) is the problem. Was it always extended or was it a primary partition? BTW I think the recovery software saw this extented partition as well. Or are you very sure it sees a logical partition within this extended partition?

 

[JustBe]

Partition Wizard actually does see my old partition.

 

[Kaktussoft]

partition wizard has also a windows version. So if your CD-drive has broken simply try the windows version

 

[JustBe]

Allright!

Partition works again.

Thanks, for super fast support, Theog & Kaktussoft!

Partition Wizard found data and after a restart my windows explorer could find the partition again as well.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Partition Wizard actually does see my old partition.

The screenshot you posted is very normal. Was this the screenshot you got when starting PW normally? Or did you perform a partition recovery?

 

[JustBe]

I did make a recovery. Then it had to apply the pending actions. After a reboot of the computer, I could access the partition again.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Great you solved the problem. It seems you did delete partition by accident.