Need to recover deleted partition on dynamic disk
Posted: 05 Sep 2016, 19:06
Hello,
I need your help to undelete a partition on a dynamic disk.
This is what happened: at work I have a 250GB SSD that I use for the OS and a 500GB HDD that I use to keep all of my backups.
In the morning I copied all of my files to the HDD because I wanted to reinstall Windows 10 on the SSD.
After I installed Windows, I went to Disk management and I saw that the HDD had 2 partition: the first of 100MB (I think that was not used) and a second of 450GB where I previously copied my data.
In order to get rid of the smaller partition I clicked with the right mouse button on the biggest partition and I selected "Extend volume", then I clicked Yes when Windows asked me to convert the disk from basic to dynamic. Windows did not extend the biggest partition, but it left both partition. So I tried to delete the 100MB partition, but Windows deleted both of them.
Now I can see no partitions on the disk, so I ran testdisk with the "Deep Search", but it's telling me that he can't recover that partition.
I'll attach some screenshoots.
I need your help to undelete a partition on a dynamic disk.
This is what happened: at work I have a 250GB SSD that I use for the OS and a 500GB HDD that I use to keep all of my backups.
In the morning I copied all of my files to the HDD because I wanted to reinstall Windows 10 on the SSD.
After I installed Windows, I went to Disk management and I saw that the HDD had 2 partition: the first of 100MB (I think that was not used) and a second of 450GB where I previously copied my data.
In order to get rid of the smaller partition I clicked with the right mouse button on the biggest partition and I selected "Extend volume", then I clicked Yes when Windows asked me to convert the disk from basic to dynamic. Windows did not extend the biggest partition, but it left both partition. So I tried to delete the 100MB partition, but Windows deleted both of them.
Now I can see no partitions on the disk, so I ran testdisk with the "Deep Search", but it's telling me that he can't recover that partition.
I'll attach some screenshoots.