Deleted system volume partition when reformatting

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I had two hard drives one was my western digital 1tb back up music,movies,yada yada drive
the other was a 400gig samsung my main/OS drive.

Well I'm an idiot and I deleted the system volume partition drive and my 400gig to reformat and now when I'm in windows I can't see my 1tb drive. In bios I can see both drives, but not in windows.

Anyone know what I can do to get my data back? :cool:

Sorry didn't know what forum to post in mods.
 
Moved this over to the Data Storage Subforum since it's more suitable there.
 
You say you formatted your 400GB disk and now you can't see your 1TB disk? Are you sure it's not the other way around? That you actually formatted your 1TB disk and now can't see that disk?

Please tell us exactly what you did; which HDD do you want to recover?

The 100MiB system partition that Win7 creates is not something you really need; it's mostly used by BitLocker.
 
Here's what I did. I have two hard drives
1. samsung 400gig (os/main drive)
2. western digital 1tb (movies/music/backupdrive)

I bought sandy bridge stuff so I decided to reformat with all my new parts.
When I booted to windows 7 cd it said I had three partitions

1. 1tb drive
2. system volume drive
3. 400gig drive

I deleted and formatted the 400gig drive and also deleted the system volume drive partition (mistake I know)

DID NOT TOUCH the 1tb hard drive.

Installed windows, 1tb is not recognizable in windows, but it is in bios.
 
So where did you look in Windows? Did you look at the Disk Management console?

You can find that using:
1. click start
2. right click My Computer
3. select Manage
4. click Disk Management
 
Yeap its even says its in there,
goto device manager recognizes it also, says drive is working fine.

But when I goto my computer it just shows my 400gig drive as C:\

no 1tb drive to be found :(
 
What you did to the 400gb drive should have nothing to do w/ the 1TB drive..........the 1TB drive should be fine
 
I wonder if it has anything to do with my new parts

My mobo is
ASUS P8p67 Pro Installed all the drivers from the cd.

I still think it has something to do with deleting that weird system volume partition. I bet that held a mbr for my 1tb drive or something.

When I used partition table doctor, I can see the contents of my 1tb drive but it won't let me recover it.
 
So is it listed by Disk Manager? Note this is different from Device Management; see my previous post.

If it's listed there, you could simply assign a drive letter to it, then it will show up in My Computer.
 
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