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by kal_lmn 1 view

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I have a 100GB partition on my hard drive which I save a bunch of my random junk. I installed the windows 7 beta finally, and when I got to the partition screen to choose the partition to install it on, I deleted the wrong one (my junk partition). I restarted the computer real quick in hopes that the partitioner in windows 7 was similar to the partitioner in ubuntu. This, however, was not the case. My junk partition was still deleted. So I continued with the install, and here I am. I am writing this in hopes that someone will know a way to get at least some of my information back. I did not format the partition, I only used the "delete" option, and I find it difficult to believe that it did a complete wipe of the 70GB of data that I had in 0.5 seconds flat.

Any help will be appreciated, and thanks in advance to anyone who may help me.

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by seanferd

Now you've overwritten data.

Actually, deleting a partition is worse than formatting - unformatting is possible.

The longer you use Win 7 in that partition, the less likely you are to recover any data.

Don't know if you'll have any luck, but here are some recovery utilities (since you describe the data as a junk pile, I assume you are not willing to spend big bucks on recovery). Don't install them in the partition you are trying to recover from.

Partition:
http://www.partition-recovery.com/
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm
http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/datarecovery.shtml

File recovery may be necessary after:
http://www.recuva.com/
http://www.undeleteunerase.com/
http://lifehacker.com/393084/how-to-recover-deleted-files-with-free-software

by kal_lmn

Thank you both very much. I am trying out some of the utilities that you both have posted links to. And as for using win 7 and over writting my old data, I installed win 7 on my main partition... or where it used to be at least. so the area on my HD that used to be my junk pile is still just blank unallocated disk space now, completely out of my win7 partition.

by tobif

The original post was well answered 1.5 years back.
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