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Accidentally deleted ext. partition
Name: dezze Date: April 11, 2009 at 01:05:48 Pacific OS: Windows XP Subcategory: Hard Drives
Comment:
Hello everyone,
I accidentally deleted the only partition on my external hard drive. It has some valuable data on it so I'd like to be able to recover it. I know there's partition recovery programs but Windows doesn't even recognize the disk anymore! I never ever had problems like this before :(.
So does anyone have a solution on how to recover my external hard drive?
Name: dezze Date: April 11, 2009 at 08:06:32 Pacific
Reply:
Jam: I was installing windows, but forgot to detach the external hard drive. The external drive and internal drive are both same sizes and instead of the internal drive's partition I deleted the external one. Stupid mistake. Your response did not help at all.
OtheHill: I will try that, thank you.
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Response Number 4
Name: dezze Date: April 11, 2009 at 08:14:09 Pacific
Reply:
I downloaded TestDisk and it worked like a charm! Very easy and quick.
Thanks again OtheHill, really appreciated!
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Response Number 5
Name: OtheHill Date: April 11, 2009 at 08:55:00 Pacific
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