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Geek Culture / EMERGENCY deleted clients partition, need a sugestion for good recovery software

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PAGAN_old
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 21:41
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For an IT professional this was the stupidest thing i did s far. I backed up the clents date on a harddrive and then when i was installing windows, my harddrive was plugged in and i accedentally got distracted and deleted a partition with my clients data I DID NOT FORMAT THE HDD. Now i know the data is still there and i have a few recovery tools, but this is actually the first timwe i work with recovery software/ I know that the thing recovers all files but its just gonna be a list of files and nothing more. I had them organized in folders and everything. Is it possible to recover the data including their directories?
another question, will the recovery tools be able to restore pictures and documents and ISOs? to the condition in which they will work and display correctly? any other tips about how to reassemble all the data to the way it was before would be a GREAT HELP THANK YOU EVERYONE!!

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kaedroho
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 22:11 Edited at: 6th Apr 2010 22:12
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If you have not written to the hard drive. Everything should still be there and intact.

Recovery software will give a list of files and the directories they are in.

Formatting doesn't wipe the hard drive. It just writes some new file allocation tables to the partition. So basically, it does the exact same as if you deleted everything.

When you delete a partition, all it does is delete its entry on the partition table. It doesn't effect 1 byte of data inside the actual partition.

There are loads of guides on the Internet for partition table recovery. Try googling it.

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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 22:15
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i know all the stuff you just said exept for the part where itts possible to restore the partition tables. if thats true, it would make my day, I did not format the drive or delete anything Will restoring partion tables be accurate? Just this is the first time i accedenally delete a partition and to make it worse it had clients data on it. god thing i am dealing with a chill person who is cool about it. Im gonna kill myself someday lol

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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 22:20 Edited at: 6th Apr 2010 22:22
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Recovering a deleted partition is alot easier than recovering from an accidentally reformatted hard drive. I mean, ALOT easier.

The data which you accidentally wiped is just a few bytes big. There is some software around for partition fixing. You just need to put the partitions entry back into the partition table and your done. It should all be back the way it was.

Just googled a bit and it looks like this piece of software will do the trick:
http://www.diskinternals.com/partition-recovery/

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what software would you reccomend for this job?

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RalphY
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 22:22
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You might want to look in to:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
It's open source, I have never had to use it before though so I can't comment on how successful it will be.

Partition Table Doctor seems to be a popular one, might be worth looking into as well:
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm

Best of luck with it! There's only one situation worse than loosing your own data and that's loosing your clients data .

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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 22:46
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WOOOOOW I FRIGGING DID IT all the data was restored to the way it was before!!! this was quite an adrenaline/nerve trip for me because i just got this job and on my second assigment i return to the office sayng... ummm i kinda by accident deleted my clients partition lol and he was like meeeh, thats not good, i dont care much about it as long as you bring me money from the jobs buuuut you should really try to restore the data, here i have some data rocovery tools. and the customer was like, well, i would reaaaaly like it if you restore that data, but if you cant, its cool dude, crap like this happenes lol i got very lucky with my boss and my client Well its a good thing i learned this the hard way lol

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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 23:39
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kaedroho What is your email I wanna give you 100000 internets for your help your advice saved me.

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