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When using DISKPART I accidentally used the CLEAN command on my portable WD 500gb HDD. Now it is not showing as a drive in my computer, though shows as unallocated space in Disk Management.
Thanks for your help
ruben
Posted 2012-09-11T15:44:53.633
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testdisk might be able to fix that.
d4v3y0rk
Posted 2012-09-11T15:44:53.633
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You'll need to recreate a partition and format it. Diskpart is capable of doing both:
select disk 1 or whatever number refers to your hard drive, use list disk to find out.create partition primary will create one large partition. Use help create partition primary for more options.select partition 1format quick to create the file system. Once again, check help format for more options.And finally, if there's data on the disk that needs to be recovered, don't do this!
Marcks Thomas
Posted 2012-09-11T15:44:53.633
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Hey you said format? I have datas in the portable!! – ruben – 2012-09-11T16:11:47.137
You saved my life sir :) I got all my files back in the fastest way – Muhammet Ali Asan – 2016-03-18T22:56:29.250
Thanks, but I have a little understanding on these, can you please specify some steps.. – ruben – 2012-09-11T15:54:29.413
This assumes they need to recover data, not just get the drive back up. For recovery, Testdisk rocks. But beware that if your drive was pretty full then it may take days to recover all the data on it. It is also likely to be in a random order, not in the nice, neat folders you may have had. – techturtle – 2012-09-11T16:10:42.847
1YESS!! It is back :) – ruben – 2012-09-11T16:10:51.960
1Excellent, it is always nice when we can so easily undo. LOL – d4v3y0rk – 2012-09-11T17:25:07.250
This is true. Back up your data. – Marcks Thomas – 2012-09-11T21:34:44.610
Thanks @DaveYork so much, your tip saved my data and my life :D – Blue Smith – 2013-02-20T15:33:17.207
@DaveYork on my laptop internal hard disk, I ran clean command on disk 1 i.e. My entire data is gone, there is lots of code, pictures of my life, I do not have any backup. Now I do not have Windows installation on my laptop,.please tell me how can I recover all data, I can not loose data. – om252345 – 2013-08-10T17:21:09.987
I did exactly this but it didn't detect my lost partition on the drive any idea what would have gone wrong? I am pretty sure I didn't write anything on the drive. :( – LoneWOLFs – 2014-06-05T13:13:47.720
how exactly did you lose the partition? – d4v3y0rk – 2014-06-05T17:32:04.973