Active Partition Recovery overlap, can't delete partitions?

[olifa]

Hello Hddgurus,

I wanted to delete 1 Partition but mistakenly (I didn't read carefully) my whole hardrive got deleted. (I aborted the deletion process after a few seconds by unplugging the drive as soon as I realized my mistake)

I did a Superscan with "active Partition Recovery" on my 2 TB Harddrive.
I got the "partition overlap error" which prevents me from recovering my partitions.
I googled and found out, to solve the partitition overlap error I have to delete the invalid partitions that cause the overlap.

now I have 2 Problems:

1. I can't delete any partitions as the "delete invalid partition" command is greyed out and not clickable
2. As 24 partitions are recovered (even though I "only" had 5 partitions before the deletion) I can't tell for sure which partitions are invalid and which are not.

I have a 700GB partition that is most precious to me, called "Elements", I really want to recover that even if it means the rest gets lost.
The Superscan gave me multiple partitions called Elements. 2 of them even have the right 700 GB size and a bunch of other partitions called "Elements" were 50 MB, 1,5 TB, 900 GB etc.

Only the first 2 partitions are in such a good condition so that they can be opened. They contain all the data i want to recover, so I can SEE all the files I want to have, I just can't recover them yet.

Can I delete all the other partitions with the poor and bad status without any risk?

between the 2 good partitions which is the right one? Both show all files, one is in excellent shape the other in good shape. Can I simply delete the good partition and recover the excellent partition without problems?

also, regarding problem 1, I have no clue on how to solve it. Could anybody tell me what I have to do, so the program allows me to delete my invalid partitions?

Thanks!


P.S.:
a picture containing my partitions and the greyed out "delete invalid partition" command. Also at the bottom the overlap error can be read:
click this link for a larger image

[dmarques]

Hi,

I do not know that app, but if I were you, I would be careful in what to do next.
Or go to a pro to get your data in perfect condition, or else image your drive first of all.

[northwind]

Agree with dmarques.
Image your disk and then play with the image. Otherwise, deleting partitions you don't know, will bring you tears.

I would suggest you drop the application you are using and try R-Studio. See if recovers your data (most likely it will), and if it does, buy it.

[olifa]

I've made it!

I can't delete partitions from the scan, only partitions that are already created on that drive.

My harddrive should have been full of unallocated partition, but instead it was a big damaged partition
The partitions that were overlapping weren't the different partitions from the scan that I tried to recover, but this one damaged partition that already existed and the one I tried to recover.

In short:

All I had to do was delete (not format!) the existing, damaged partition, so it changed to an unallocated partition.

Now, when I clicked recover on a partition, it just took 10 seconds and the whole 700GB partition reappeared. ALL Files are working, not a single one damaged.

Three days ago I tried the software "PC Inspector File Recovery". I let it run for 24hrs straight, and it found not a single file (remaining time until my disk would be fully scanned: 560 days)
Two days ago I tried the recovery software "ZAR" (zero assumption recovery) it was quite fast, did a full scan in about 18 hours and it found every single file of my partition.
But when I tried to recover them 90% were damaged and didn't work.

Active Partition took a bit longer (at least the superscan variante about 20 hours) but now that I knew what i had to do, everything is fully recovered. Videos are playing, images, pdfs, mp3s everything works! =)

[deeharmonic]

How do you delete the damaged partitions? Active Partitions option for it is greyed out