[SOLVED] Dynamic disk recovery

[SnaG10]

Hi,

I accidentally extended a dynamic partition over a small empty section on another disk and then deleted that section. Now the whole partition is 'failed'. I know no files were on that small section. How can I recover the rest of the partition? It's around 1.5tb of my general usage over ~5 years, so is very precious to me, so I'd like to get it back if at all possible.

Any help would be really appreciated, thanks.

 

[rgd1101]

precious data? where the backup?

 

[USAFRet]

"It's around 1.5tb of my general usage over ~5 years, so is very precious to me. "

Why was there not a backup of this 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

To potentially 'recover':
TestDisk
Minitool Partition Recovery

 

[SnaG10]

I have backups of most of all super important things, docs & photos etc, but I'm worried that there's stuff in there I haven't. Ironically, I had just bought a HDD to back it all up..

 

[fzabkar]

Can you show us the Partitions window in DMDE?

https://dmde.com/download.html

 

[SnaG10]

Sure, can you specify what you mean by partitions window?

I just used the 'full scan' feature and it looks like all my stuff is there, or the file structure at least.

https://imgur.com/vStF274

View: https://i.imgur.com/vStF274.png

 

[SnaG10]

It looks like I can recover it using the 'Recover data' tool. Am I correct in thinking I need space elsewhere to recover it to, or can it be recovered onto the same space?

 

[USAFRet]

It looks like I can recover it using the 'Recover data' tool. Am I correct in thinking I need space elsewhere to recover it to, or can it be recovered onto the same space?

Some other space.

 

[fzabkar]

@SnaG10, you don't need to do a full scan.

Just show us the very first window that pops up after you specify the drive you wish to work on. DMDE will display the partitions that it has found, including their sizes, start and end LBAs, indicators, etc.

It should take less than a minute for DMDE to find these partitions.

 

[SnaG10]

@SnaG10, you don't need to do a full scan.

Just show us the very first window that pops up after you specify the drive you wish to work on. DMDE will display the partitions that it has found, including their sizes, start and end LBAs, indicators, etc.

It should take less than a minute for DMDE to find these partitions.

Hope this is correct, thanks for the help.

https://imgur.com/k7jdJEY

View: https://i.imgur.com/k7jdJEY.png

 

[fzabkar]

If you double-click the first second "HD Windows B..." volume and expand the Root, do you see your file folder structure?

If so, then the safest approach would be to recover the files to another the drive. However, you will need to pay US$20 for the basic version of DMDE. The freeware version only recovers a limited number of files.