How to recover deleted or lost partition?

Introduction

"Where is my partition? Why the partition becomes unallocated space?"

Computers users usually encounter this problem. When you could not see one of your partitions, this situation may means it is corrupted or lost, and the data stores on it cannot be accessible. This unfortunate always happens after system reinstallation, accidentally deletion, incorrect manipulation, or virus infection. From a technical point of view, the main reason of partition lost is partition table corruption which contains information about the hard drive partitions. Using the right tool, you can find the partition back.

Don't worry! Here is the method to find it back.

Solution

1. Stop what you're doing

When you find your partition is lost, the real lost is the parameters that mark how the partition is setup. That's to say, your partition and the data on the partition is still there, but the system cannot recognize it. At this time, any operations may overwrite the old data, so never do any changes to the unallocated space until the partition is recovered. The chances of partition recovery will go down with the times you save new files.

2. Find the right partition recovery software

Partition recovery software: The software to recover the whole partition. Use partition recovery software, you can recover not only the data stored on the lost partition, but also the whole partition instruction which means the lost partition all appear on its original position.

Data recovery software: The software to recover the data on lost partition. Use data recovery software, you can recover the specified files instead of the whole partition. Choose the right file types you need, this software can find them back for you.

3. Recover lost or deleted partition

Partition recovery software: Partition lost always caused by partition table corruption, which makes the operating system cannot "see" it. Partition recovery software recovers partition via rebuilding partition table to find the partition setup information, and then the lost partition can reappear on the unallocated space. Refer to How to recover deleted or lost partitions?

Data recovery software: Because of the partition lost, the data on the lost partition cannot be accessible. But the data is still stored on the original sector if you haven't overwritten it by saving new files. Data recovery software can recover the specific files you want, the only thing you need to do is just select the right file types you need to recover. You can create new partition and copy the recovered files to it.

4. Don't let this happen again

No matter which reason caused your partition lost, forming a good habit of doing regular data backup is best solution of partition and data recovery. Using Windows built-in backup tool or data backup software, it can make data lost never happens again.

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