I accidentally deleted partition

[Stumann]

I accidentally deleted a partition on a secondary hard drive. The partition as the only partition and it was the whole hard drive. Now if I try to open it with Windows Explorer, it tell me its not formatted. I have done nothing else with the hard drive in hopes of saving it. How can I recover the data, or is it too late?

 

[USAFRet]

Possibly this:
http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

 

[njxc500]

You should be able to save it, but it will take a recovery software....

http://www.ptdd.com/

 

[ingtar33]

WD data lifeguard has some tools that might recover the data on that drive.

just make sure you don't touch it in this state. there are some paid tools that could fix it as well (like EaseUS). but start with the free WD Data Lifeguard first.

 

[fzabkar]

@Stumann, if you had simply deleted a partition, then Windows would not be prompting you to format it. Instead Windows would offering to initialise your drive. ISTM that you are not telling us the full story.

Try Partition Find and Mount:

http://findandmount.com/

Otherwise, I would examine the drive with a disc editor, eg DMDE (freeware).

http://dmde.com/

Could you show us DMDE's Partitions window?