Partition info overwritten, Active Partition Recovery sees the data

[Video8K]

Hello,

- used an existing HDD with Data to save Win7 OS recovery info
- Win7 immediately overwrote partition
- I stopped the process after seconds
- New partition shows empty HDD
- Arctive Partition Recovery finds all data after SuperScan (24h)
- I cant recovery the old partition as the new partition info is shown as valid
- I can copy the HDD to another identical HDD, but I get the bad "new" partition again

Should I delete the new partition and try to recover?
How can I simply copy all data to a new HDD? I can see the data, open JPGs, read TXT files etc.

Any help appreciated,
Video8K

 

[Reyaz123]

Move the hard drive to a functioning computer as a second hard drive to backup all of your data if you need to, using a external drive.
It sounds like the partition got corrupted so you will have to delete it to proceed with the installation

 

[IPBTechnology]

there are several softwares or tool you can try before you try to overwrite any info on the HDD

you can search on Google "data recovery software" some will come up!

even you can find a few tutorials on youtube!

 

[popatim]

The first thing you should do IMO is to image the drive exactly the way it is.
From there you can run recovery software on the image and save the actual drive for if/when you need to send it out for professional data recover.

If you dont want to go thru that added expense you should recover your data to atleast dvd's though another drive would be faster. Once your data is safe then you can try recovering the partition. I normally use Testdisk.

TestDisk can
Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
Fix FAT tables
Rebuild NTFS boot sector
Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
Fix MFT using MFT mirror
Locate ext2/ext3/ext4 Backup SuperBlock
Undelete files from FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
Copy files from deleted FAT, exFAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions.