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I am working on a computer and really F*&*ed up.
I deleted a partition of the WRONG disk....Is there a way to recover this partition and the data ?

while we are at it... whats the difference between an dynamic and a basic disc?

I can not think of any free recovery software at the moment that will do the job.

Here is a lik to more info about the difference between basic and dynamic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Disk_Manager

Nothing free, but something like iRecover should work. I've had good luck with it.

Of course it was my computer... and it was my 250 Gig HDD that was full of movies, mp3s, and programs.

I guess that is the downfall of two drives in the same computer of the same size...easy to confuse the two in disc manager. I found a program that seems to be working but will take 3 hours to find files (which it is)... now I just hope it will recover them.

it will most likely take way longer then 3 hrs to recover 250gb of movies etc.
It took over 12hrs to recover files of a 60Gb HD for me. But, god luck.

Agreed. May take all day, but as long as you didn't overwrite the drive with data you should fully recover it.

OK ... downloaded advance recovery wizard and it took 3 hours to give me a directory tree of what is recoverable.

Everything I need looks good...when I go to recover the files. Of course the demo version will not do this so I have to purchase the $80 program. Grrrrr.

Check your email...

hey Duckie.. give me a call if you need help with this. I ahve the software that will do it. and can drop it by your place if you need.. I even think I have it on a thumb drive..

806-252-6681

it's called Get Data Back NTFS..

and I actually really do own it.. I bought it for work a while back..

the result:

I tried irecover and it did not 'see' all the files I needed/wanted
So I tried a program called Data Recovery Wizard 2.0 and it did 'see' all the files I needed.
Therefore I purchased the program
Installed the purchased version and 8 hours later I have the data I need.

Lesson learned, when you have two HDDs the same, give a CAREFUL look at the drive you are working on.

Thanks for all your support, especially FP.
Good thing is I built a computer for a friend this weekend and the money I earned went to the program I purchased so I broke even, and now I ACTUALLY OWN a program which I know works.

Backing up on DVD now so it will not happen again.

Again thanks for the support, Long live PCA.

Yeah, I have one system with identical drives and it's always a bit of nail biting when I'm working with an imaging app or Partition Magic to make sure I'm working on the right drive.