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Although I hadn't seen the specific sites you've linked, I'd seen a good deal like it. I appreciate and thank you for all the good information you've pointed me to. ![]() Conceptually, the task is very simple indeed, but in actual practice I don't even dare to try (by using a disk editor manually).Īs for your final sentence, I was actually in the very process of backing up the data on those partitions when, due to a mistaken report from a backup tool, I accidentally deleted the partition table!įriend RandomTox, I gladly thank and commend you once again for your amazing perseverance! Whereas all I need is to fill in the partition location data within a very small number of sectors within a newly constructed GPT partition table. They have clean rooms where they dismantle the disk in a dust-free environment and apply special methods to read the data from the damaged parts of the disk. Furthermore, they're really only useful when the disk itself is physically damaged, such as after a major head crash or the drive was in a fire or dropped from a considerable height. In fact, it was the worst I've seen when I ran it, because it gave an error message that it "Can not recover dynamic disks", which is doubly bad because the disk in question is NOT a dynamic disk!Īs for paid professional disk recovery, the prices are absolutely outrageous, especially if you want them to recover atypical data or partitions, easily reaching at least a few thousand dollars. Sadly, the iCare tools you kindly pointed me to are no exception. I agree with your first sentence that, since none of the actual data in the missing partitions have been corrupted, if I can somehow re-create the partition table, the results will be perfect.Īll I need is a tool that can re-create the partition table from the information I already have, but I still haven't seen ANY partition recovery tool that will work with the kind of rare partition types I have on the disk in question. My thanks to you, too, for your reply Bishop696! Also, I already made a sector-for-sector clone of the problem disk, so I don't worry about trial and error.Ĭan anyone suggest some tool to use that can recover unusual partition types? Note that none of these lost partition have been overwritten, so the data stored there is known to be uncorrupted. ![]() ![]() But that level of direct disk editing is beyond me, so I need software to do this, and I don't mind paying a reasonable amount for commercial software.įYI: I'm running 64-bit Windows 7 Pro/SP1, but I'll happily run some kind of Linux-based Live CD or whatever if the tool doesn't run under Windows. And, if I understand correctly, all that really needs to be done is to create/re-create a partition table with that information (it's a 3TB GPT disk), rather than having to do anything in the partitions themselves. The thing is, I know almost exactly where the unusual partitions are located on the disk (CHS/LBA), and their size. I've googled like crazy, but I can't find any software tool, at any price, that can recover/rebuild accidentally deleted partitions if those partitions aren't any of the usual types! The most comprehensive tool I've been able to find is TestDisk, which can recognize and recover approximately 25 different partition types ( here's the list).īut if any of the partitions you need to recover are NOT one of those 25, I can find nothing that will even attempt to do this job! So, for example, if you need to recover a partition of, say, type 22h, 47h, 74h, or 95h, or any other rare type, is there ANY tool that can do that? Any at all?
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