- Oct 29, 2015
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Hi everyone,
I recently bought a new M.2 SSD to move my OS onto, so I had been messing with the disk management. I ended up having to do a clean install of my OS onto the new drive as cloning wasn't working.
Something I had found out in this process was that the boot partition of my OS was on a different drive to my OS. This meant that after the clean install an extra boot partition was still on this different drive.
So, admittedly very stupidly, I decided to try and delete it as to not cause any issues with boot priority. However, I accidentally deleted the volume of the whole disk, instantly wiping most of a TB of files.
Probably should have instantly tried to get professional help, but I ended up googling the problem and came across the software Remo Recover to try and recover the lost partitions.
I scanned the lost drive but was met with a list of around 30 differently named partitions of varying sizes and different file formats(ExFat, NTFS) so I didn't really know what to do with it.
I tried scanning the partition with the largest size but there were no files shown when it finished.
I'm going to a local computer store(which I should have done from the get-go) to see what can be done.
But I'm looking for some info on what situation I've got myself in and/or what the possible outcomes are for files on the drive.
Thanks.
I recently bought a new M.2 SSD to move my OS onto, so I had been messing with the disk management. I ended up having to do a clean install of my OS onto the new drive as cloning wasn't working.
Something I had found out in this process was that the boot partition of my OS was on a different drive to my OS. This meant that after the clean install an extra boot partition was still on this different drive.
So, admittedly very stupidly, I decided to try and delete it as to not cause any issues with boot priority. However, I accidentally deleted the volume of the whole disk, instantly wiping most of a TB of files.
Probably should have instantly tried to get professional help, but I ended up googling the problem and came across the software Remo Recover to try and recover the lost partitions.
I scanned the lost drive but was met with a list of around 30 differently named partitions of varying sizes and different file formats(ExFat, NTFS) so I didn't really know what to do with it.
I tried scanning the partition with the largest size but there were no files shown when it finished.
I'm going to a local computer store(which I should have done from the get-go) to see what can be done.
But I'm looking for some info on what situation I've got myself in and/or what the possible outcomes are for files on the drive.
Thanks.
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