Recovering deleted partitions

**p38arover** · 23rd July 2010, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

On three HDDs at once? That sounds unusual.

You know me.

I also had the new HDD in my laptop fail at about the same time after less than a month's use (and the battery in my dedicated Rovacom/TestBook laptop).

**p38arover** · 23rd July 2010, 08:21 PM

Originally Posted by djam1

While its not a partition recovery program we have been using
Recuuva with great success.
Recuva - Download

I shall Google it. Thanks.

**Narangga** · 23rd July 2010, 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by p38arover

Partition
Properties
Help

I assume that means I can only partition the drive. I don't want to do that just yet.

Bugger - when it happened to me I was able to allocate or import or whatever it was and the disk returned to its rightful place in Windows Explorer.

**abaddonxi** · 23rd July 2010, 08:37 PM

I used both Recuva and Pandora Recovery this week to get some jpgs of a friend's computer this week. Recuva did the job, a bit basic, worth a try.

Did you get struck by lightning, or just your usual luck?

**abaddonxi** · 23rd July 2010, 08:40 PM

Could try this-
Partition Find and Mount — free partition recovery software Don't know anything about it past a google search and a look at the website.

**p38arover** · 23rd July 2010, 08:49 PM

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

I used both Recuva and Pandora Recovery this week to get some jpgs of a friend's computer this week. Recuva did the job, a bit basic, worth a try.

Did you get struck by lightning, or just your usual luck?

Just my usual good luck.

I just remembered I have Partition Magic 7.0 in a drawer. I'll have a look to see if it will recover deleted partitions.

**p38arover** · 23rd July 2010, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by abaddonxi

Could try this-
Partition Find and Mount — free partition recovery software Don't know anything about it past a google search and a look at the website.

Ooh! Ooh! I'll try that.

**JDNSW** · 24th July 2010, 05:48 AM

I would try booting from a Linux CD or DVD (Knoppix for example as it has lots of utilities) and see if they are readable that way. If they are, copy onto an external USB drive.

John

**p38arover** · 24th July 2010, 06:14 AM

I'll give that a go if I have no luck, John. I struggle with Linux.

I'm currently trying the Partition Find and Mount that Simon suggestd and it seems to be working. I'm copying files to another drive as we speak.

**incisor** · 24th July 2010, 07:11 AM

search for an image of a hirens cd

on there there are several partition rrecovery programs that actually work...

you download the cd iso image, burn it to cd, boot from the cd select the recovery tool you want to try and away you go

hirens 10.5 is about the latest i think, maybe 10.6

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