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 Post subject: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 1:26 
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Hi all,

I managed to delete the main partition on a secondary GPT HDD. It's now unallocated space on a dynamic drive and I've not touched it since.

It appears EaseUS partition recovery doesn't support dynamic or GPT recovery. I can convert it to a basic disk (haven't done so yet) but would still be unable to recover GPT drive partitions.

Any advice would be much appreciated - thanks!


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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 9:28 
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Try R Studio or UFS explorer

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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 11:19 
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Could we see the partition information for all members of the dynamic volume?

You could use DMDE (freeware):

https://dmde.com/

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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 11:33 
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I'd personally just run testdisk from https://www.cgsecurity.org/. It'll not only find the lost partitions, but can probably restore them to original.

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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 11:52 
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I would be wary of TestDisk. I've seen many people get it wrong with this tool. DMDE is much better because you can see your file/folder tree. You can also undo any changes much more easily with DMDE than with TestDisk (assuming TestDisk can do this at all).

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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 13:00 
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Thanks for the replies. I want to be realy safe so have just attached the preview of what my partitions would look like if I applied EaseUS's convert to basic disk. I hope that's what you were asking for, fzabkar?

[img][img]https://s18.postimg.org/w13oahpf9/Disk_partitions.jpg[/img][/img]


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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 13:16 
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fzabkar wrote:
I would be wary of TestDisk. I've seen many people get it wrong with this tool. DMDE is much better because you can see your file/folder tree. You can also undo any changes much more easily with DMDE than with TestDisk (assuming TestDisk can do this at all).


Just for the record this software can see my missing partition (it's highlighted blue in this screenshot) I just want to know this is a safe way to do it before going ahead. Just so you know, this is the only partition I want to recover. Cheers :)

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Realised I didn't upload the image properly in my previous post and can't edit because I'm new here so here are the partitions EaseUS can see when converting to basic disk:

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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 29th, 2016, 15:42 
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partitiondeleter wrote:
Hi all,

I managed to delete the main partition on a secondary GPT HDD. It's now unallocated space on a dynamic drive and I've not touched it since.

It appears EaseUS partition recovery doesn't support dynamic or GPT recovery. I can convert it to a basic disk (haven't done so yet) but would still be unable to recover GPT drive partitions.

Any advice would be much appreciated - thanks!

Can you use data recovery software ZAR X z-a-recovery.com

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 Post subject: Re: GPT partition recovery
PostPosted: August 30th, 2016, 17:53 
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In DMDE, double-click any likely looking "found" partition (those with "F" in the "indicators" column) and then expand the Root. Do you see your file/folder structure?

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