Accidently deleting a partition is a foolish task. Its like spilling hot coffee on yourself. Fortunately, its a better than a HDD Crash as it has better chances of recovery.
There are many recovery tools available which let you recover NTFS, FAT32 partitions. Some are freeware but most good ones are paid. So get the torrents.
The one which I used to recover my external HDD was Partition Table Doctor. It was a quick 5 minutes task. I scanned my disk automatically and it showed me the Partition Table it had found. Satisfied, it was the correct one, I clicked Save and it began performing its rituals. It asked me to reboot and it was done.
One tip I’ll strongly advise people to follow in event of a HDD crash or accidental format is that you must resist installing, copying data or programs to the same partition. In fact, if possible disconnect the drive until you start the recovery process.
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Good post!!
i’ve also used this utility to recover my partition when accidently it was deleted by me…
Hey Vaibhav , if I delete the pagefile.sys in my data drive, would it cause any problem ?? The problem is if I try to partition the disk it shows no more than 5GB as d max. partition size even when I have about 20GB free space. Repeated defragmenting too didn’t help…
You have to reduce the size of pagefile to 100MB and after that change its location to a different partition. After that you can proceed to resize your partition using one of the two methods explained in my earlier post
Resize partitions in Windows for Free without loosing data
You MUST reduce the size of pagefile and change its location as it wont let you delete pagefile.sys from within windows and even if you delete it from DOS or linux, it’ll be recreated once you reboot in Windows.
Let me know if you need further assistance.