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Recovering a Deleted NTFS Partition

Jun 26, 2006 5:29AM PDT

I accidentally deleted an NTFS partition using fdisk. Are there any good software programs/utilities that can recoved a deleted partition? I'm not looking for just a freeware utiility. I'm willing to spend the money and purchase a program just as long as it works.

Thanks!

Bluehorse_58

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Bummer.....I'd guess you can but I've never faced that
Jun 26, 2006 11:12AM PDT

specific problem. No backup ??? And you just deleted the partition ...the only partition on the drive ?

VAPCMD

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**** Happens
Jun 27, 2006 5:07PM PDT

now, ur situation isn't hopeless.
since u're ready to pay(actually, i don't know free one) i'd recommend u Disk Director by Acronis.
it has Acronis Partition Recovery feature,
that will most likely solve ur problem.
Anyway if something goes wrong (e.g.Disk Director won't recover ur deleted partition) u can get ur money back within 30 days.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

good luck
be sure to tell us about results

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But if DD doesn't work ...isn't the user less likely to get
Jun 27, 2006 10:24PM PDT

the data off the HDD ???

Wouldn't it make sense to 'clone' the drive before using DD to recover the partition ?