[SOLVED] Deleted disk partition(s)

[Memoirs99]

Hi!
So a while back I was formatting a USB drive for my brother and I accidentally deleted the wrong drive partitions.
I have put the image of the deleted drive below. Is there any way for me to recover the data that was previously on this drive without having to spend money?

EDIT:
P.S. Recuva was unable to find the disk in question, as it has no letter or volume. Would I be safe formatting it or would I be unable to recover the data if I do so?

 

[fzabkar]

DO NOT FORMAT the drive. Doing so would be data destructive.

DMDE may be able to recover the partition with a few clicks. Can you show us DMDE's Partitions window?

https://dmde.com/

 

[USAFRet]

For future reference, always have an actual backup of your data.

What is your backup situation at home?

What is your backup situation at home? And if you don't do that, why not? Every single day, I read multiple threads here of "How do I get my stuff back?" or "That drive had 5 years of photos of my kids!!" Be it a dead drive, dropped phone, virus, accidental deletion, formatting the wrong...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[Memoirs99]

Is this what you were talking about?

DO NOT FORMAT the drive. Doing so would be data destructive.

DMDE may be able to recover the partition with a few clicks. Can you show us DMDE's Partitions window?

https://dmde.com/

 

[fzabkar]

Unfortunately the Indicators column has no "F", ie it shows BCxf instead of BCFf. This means that the $MFT (Master File Table) has been deleted. This in turn implies that you would be unlikely to recover your original file/folder structure.

I would clone the drive and then run data recovery software against the clone. DMDE costs US$20 for the standard version. The free version can recover up to 4000 files from any one folder. You will probably need to perform a full scan in "raw" mode. I expect that the first NTFS partition would contain your data.

 

[Memoirs99]

Unfortunately the Indicators column has no "F", ie it shows BCxf instead of BCFf. This means that the $MFT (Master File Table) has been deleted. This in turn implies that you would be unlikely to recover your original file/folder structure.

I would clone the drive and then run data recovery software against the clone. DMDE costs US$20 for the standard version. The free version can recover up to 4000 files from any one folder. You will probably need to perform a full scan in "raw" mode. I expect that the first NTFS partition would contain your data.

You are indeed correct. I used minitool partition wizard and was able to find all of my files, but it costs US$59 to be able to recover them.

 

[fzabkar]

If Minitool can find the files, then a full scan in DMDE should do it. DMDE's initial Partitions window is the result of a quick scan.

 

[Memoirs99]

If Minitool can find the files, then a full scan in DMDE should do it. DMDE's initial Partitions window is the result of a quick scan.

After a bit of fooling around, I discovered that DMDE is also freemium, and won't let me recover more than the files (and not subfolders) of a specific folder that I have selected.
Although I am currently using it, I had to pay US$20 to recover the files. Sadly, it seems as if there is almost no way to recover deleted partitions without paying money.

 

[fzabkar]

If all you had done was to delete a partition, the free version of DMDE would have been able to recover it. In such cases you would r-click the partition and select "Insert the partition (undelete)."