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I have a 1TB hard drive to save my data and a 256GB SSD to install Windows 10. 500MB from the 1TB was partitioned as a System Reserved partition.
I tried to delete the System Reserved partition from the Disk Management in Windows, but the reserved partition become unallocated storage , so I extended the big part (not the reserved partition but the other renaming space of the 1TB) of the hard drive to unite everything in one partition, but they become two partitions with the same name and the same drive letter, so I deleted the small one (the Reserved partition previously), but the whole drive became empty and unallocated storage, and then boom I lost all the data.
I tried to give the partition a drive letter, but it didn't work, nothing comes back.
I tried:
- I unmounted the drive directly after this without writing anything in it.
- I tried to use multiple programs to recovering either the data or the lost partition like (EaseUS UnFormat, YUP Tools Recover Windows, ZAR x, mMinitool Partiton Wizard, Minitool Data Recovery, AOMEI Partition) and not a single file got recovered, but only "UnFormat" Says that I have overlapped partitions, bit I don't know what this means.
Maybe the system file page for the System Reserved partition overrides the system file page of the other partition or I don't know.
mr marvin gak
Posted 2020-01-11T10:27:34.490
Reputation: 1
Follow this guide :https://www.partition-recovery.com/answer1tech.html
– Madhubala – 2020-01-11T10:48:31.643@user52599 nothing comes out, i don't think its about the recovery programs, i think its about the partition it self – mr marvin gak – 2020-01-11T11:13:42.190
Actually I thought as it has feature to recover from overlapped partition so you should give it a try !! But nevermind try Testdisk read the manual if you are new – Madhubala – 2020-01-11T11:23:25.733
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Testdisk https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk : free powerful recovery program and a advice - proceed with caution since it's not GUI
– Madhubala – 2020-01-11T11:40:23.167@user52599 Why would a CLI application require "proceed with caution"... the only difference between a CLI vs GUI application is one happens within a terminal and the other within the OS' GUI... one is no more complicated or complex than the other. Wouldn't it be prudent to contemplate the impact of such a "warning", as it could be argued such "warnings" are why so many have a fear of anything to do with a terminal and CLI applications? – JW0914 – 2020-01-11T12:32:59.203