Hello friends,

I have been frantically googling through the web these last couple of days for any advise or solution to my problem. Without any luck i decided to join this forum (This is my first post/topic, hello.). I will try to relate as accurately as possible what happened.

This is what happened. A few days ago, i had to format my HDD to reinstall a copy of windows 7. I had to convert my HDD from GPT to MBR because i was using a UEFI motherboard. I couldn't activate my pirated copy of Win7ultimate therefore i had to install Win7pro instead (because of my countries poor exchange rate, genuine copy of windows is quite pricey). This is where everything went hazy from the panic attack i had. I dont remember exactly what i did, but in my first attempt i was unsuccessful in my installation. I managed to install windows on my second try. I then realized that my second 1TB HDD which i used for storage appeared as system reserved at 500Mb. This is the part i panicked. Running disk management i discover that my 1TB HDD had 930Gb of unallocated space. The data in the HDD are mostly games which i can live without, however i do have important documents inside.

So that was what happened. My questions are:
1. Am i screwed?
2. What should i do?
3. Will typical data recovery software help (i.e. EaseUs data recovery wizard)?
4. Or will partition recovery software help (i.e. testdisk)?

Help

Regards

Can you show us DMDE's Partitions window? BTW, DMDE has a free version, so you don't need to be concerned with piracy.

https://dmde.com/

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Partition window?

You mean these?

Hello friend,

So i decided to go ahead and scan the drive with DMDE. I found exactly what i lost. Yay!
What should be my next step? Do i recover all the files or do i reconstruct the file system? I'm guessing i have to source a full edition instead of using this free edition?

Regards