Hello Hard Drive Experts,
I messed up badly during an all-night attempt to repair my computer. I was transferring all of the data from a 1 TB hard drive to another identical one mounted in the same machine, one partition at a time.
After transferring one partition successfully from the old drive to the new drive, I deleted what I thought was the old partition. Minutes later (to my utter horror) I realized that the Window Disk Management program had interchanged the two nearly identical drives between sessions. What had been Disk 0 was now Disk 1 and vice-versa.
I had mistakenly deleted the wrong partition...
If it hadn't been 4 AM I would have just used a data recovery program to recover the partition, but I was so panicked that I had Windows Disk Management create a new partition, stupidly hoping that it would "find" all of the files. Big mistake.... All of the data is there (completely undamaged) but there is no information telling which sectors need to be concatenated to rebuild each file.
Is there any way at all to recover the original partition information that held the information allowing the files to be recreated?
Is there any other way to recover the files themselves, and hopefully the folder structure as well?
Thanks in advance for any and all help, suggestions, and advice!
Charley
I messed up badly during an all-night attempt to repair my computer. I was transferring all of the data from a 1 TB hard drive to another identical one mounted in the same machine, one partition at a time.
After transferring one partition successfully from the old drive to the new drive, I deleted what I thought was the old partition. Minutes later (to my utter horror) I realized that the Window Disk Management program had interchanged the two nearly identical drives between sessions. What had been Disk 0 was now Disk 1 and vice-versa.
I had mistakenly deleted the wrong partition...
If it hadn't been 4 AM I would have just used a data recovery program to recover the partition, but I was so panicked that I had Windows Disk Management create a new partition, stupidly hoping that it would "find" all of the files. Big mistake.... All of the data is there (completely undamaged) but there is no information telling which sectors need to be concatenated to rebuild each file.
Is there any way at all to recover the original partition information that held the information allowing the files to be recreated?
Is there any other way to recover the files themselves, and hopefully the folder structure as well?
Thanks in advance for any and all help, suggestions, and advice!
Charley