Accidentally deleted partition

[ERipley]

Just deleted the wrong partition in windows. Was my 1tb of ps3 ISO’s ffs. Running easus partition recovery now.

How fucked am I?

 

[pendragon1]

Just deleted the wrong partition in windows. Was my 1tb of ps3 ISO’s ffs. Running easus partition recovery now.

How fucked am I?

if you didnt do anything to it hopefully good.

 

[Darunion]

should be okay if you didnt format and went to recovery quickly.

 

[ERipley]

Can’t believe I clicked wrong one lol. Took me weeks to download all these on my iPhone lol

 

[ERipley]

Shit. Free trial doesn’t recover. What’s best free software ?

 

[pendragon1]

could try lazesoft, ive had luck with it before. https://www.lazesoft.com/partition-recovery/partition-recovery-freeware.html
this one also appears to be free and easy to use. https://www.minitool.com/free-tools/minitool-partitionrecovery.html
just do not do anything else with the drive but attempt recovery, until you are successful or give up...

 

[ERipley]

Tried minitool and selected pro trial and still requiring paying. Trying lazesoft now.

 

[pendragon1]

Tried monoplane selected pro trial and still requiring paying. Trying lazesoft now.

while its running, see if the manufacturer has any tools.

 

[ERipley]

while its running, see if the manufacturer has any tools.

Manufacturer?

 

[pendragon1]

Manufacturer?

the brand that made the drive, ie if its wd look on wd's site, if its seagate... etc etc

 

[ERipley]

Got ya.

 

[ERipley]

Well, Lazesoft is letting me recover the ISO’s to a different hdd so hopefully they all work.

Thanks all.

 

[Nobu]

If you know the exact partition parameters (start, length, type), you can just recreate the partition. Especially easy if it was the only one. Some partitioning programs can also detect deleted partitions, I think, but I can't name any off hand.

The filesystem information is stored separate from the partition information, so as long as you don't create the partition with the start past the beginning of the filesystem, or reformat that space, your files and file names should be intact.

 

[ERipley]

So far they seem intact. Tested some on the ps3 and they load and work.

 

[OFaceSIG]

This is what NASs are for. Don't keep bulk data on your PC.

 

[ERipley]

Was actually transferring to a larger drive. Forgot they have to be mbr formatted and clicked the wrong drive.

 

[Hash_Immutable_1337x]

 

[ochadd]

Just deleted the wrong partition in windows. Was my 1tb of ps3 ISO’s ffs. Running easus partition recovery now.

Just FYI, I've had good luck with all Easus software I've tried. Bought Easus Partition Maser Technician lifetime license like 10 years ago that has a recovery built in. Had worked many times we've tried it.
I run their backup software at home and on small business servers.

Only seen two issues, a computer it won't backup it thinks has a corrupted file system but that I've found no corruption on. Another person I backed up the computer to a USB drive, checked it directly after, get home to find the data couldn't be read. Considering the software runs every day on dozens of machines I control, that's not bad.