Accidentally destroyed a hard drive partition

Hi,

As I was installing Xubuntu (with intentions of dual booting), I accidentally destroyed a partition full of my school work stuff using the partition manager.

It was originally NTFS.
It is now an ext3 file system, and there is no data on it.

How would I go about recovering my data from it?

 

Try Minitools Power Data Recovery. Use the Lost Partitions option and see if it sees your old NTFS partition.

I'm not familiar with the software (other than reading threads where others have had success) but if it sees the partition and/or your files there is a chance of recovering some or all of the data.

 

Thanks, I'll look at that.
It already found a partition was lost. I hope this works

 

I'm sorry that I can't duplicate the problem to give you some pointers. I know tgell and others have been able to recover some files by copying them to a separate drive such as USB flash or external.

I don't know if the program can just restore the old partition and the System Volume Information index that holds information about the old files, which would be ideal.

You might want to wait to see if tgell or someone who has used that program with success sees this thread and can give you some assistance.

 

Re: Accidentally destoryed a hard drive partition

Minitools Data Recovery will recover data but it will not unformat. What concerned me was the OP formatted the partition to ext3 and I never ran into that problem. Their website says the software only supports FAT,FAT32 and NTFS. If Minitools can see the NTFS partition after being formatted with ext3, that would be awesome. Easeus has a partition recovery software but have not used that.

It may work if Minitools cannot recover the files.

If Minitools does recover the data, I would then try easeus to see if the partition itself could be recovered.

 

Re: Accidentally destoryed a hard drive partition

That tool you are using has worked wonders with partition recovery for me. I bought the full version for my firm and we use it there.