What happens when I remove a partition? Can I recover the contents?

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alvarez.jl

Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it delete
the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive as
well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it? If
so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it delete
the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive as
well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it? If
so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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if you removed the partiton
you deleted it's contents...

a utility such as partition magic should be able to recover the drive...
but do not attempt to just recreate in windows!
 
'alverez.jl' wrote:
| Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it delete
| the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
| everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
| Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
| computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive as
| well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it? If
| so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
_____

Deleting a partition does not remove the contents of a drive, but it DOES
'disconnect' the tables that point to the files and that keep track of the
clusters used. A data recovery program can be used to reconstruct the
partition table.

Phil Weldon

| Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it delete
| the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
| everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
| Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
| computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive as
| well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it? If
| so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
|
 
Wrong.

Phil Weldon

| (e-mail address removed) wrote:
| > Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it delete
| > the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
| > everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
| > Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
| > computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive as
| > well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it? If
| > so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
| >
|
|
| if you removed the partiton
| you deleted it's contents...
|
| a utility such as partition magic should be able to recover the drive...
| but do not attempt to just recreate in windows!
 
What he siad is correct (partially). When you delete a portion, you CAN NOT
recover the contents, UNLESS you made a daily-weekly backup of your computer.
 
What he siad is correct (partially). When you delete a portion, you CAN NOT
recover the contents, UNLESS you made a daily-weekly backup of your computer
(which im sure you did)! HA HA! That last parts funny, isn't it!!
 
ETLCS said:
What he siad is correct (partially). When you delete a portion, you
CAN NOT recover the contents, UNLESS you made a daily-weekly backup of
your computer
(which im sure you did)! HA HA! That last parts funny, isn't it!!
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This is also incorrect. Maybe *you* couldn't recover the data, but I
could and so could lots of other professionals.

Malke
 
Wrong.

Phil Weldon

| What he siad is correct (partially). When you delete a portion, you CAN
NOT
| recover the contents, UNLESS you made a daily-weekly backup of your
computer.
|
| "Phil Weldon" wrote:
|
| > Wrong.
| >
| > Phil Weldon
| >
| > | > | (e-mail address removed) wrote:
| > | > Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it
delete
| > | > the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
| > | > everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
| > | > Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
| > | > computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive
as
| > | > well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it?
If
| > | > so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
| > | >
| > |
| > |
| > | if you removed the partiton
| > | you deleted it's contents...
| > |
| > | a utility such as partition magic should be able to recover the
drive...
| > | but do not attempt to just recreate in windows!
| >
| >
| >
 
'ETLCS' wrote:
| What he siad is correct (partially). When you delete a portion, you CAN
NOT
| recover the contents, UNLESS you made a daily-weekly backup of your
computer
| (which im sure you did)! HA HA! That last parts funny, isn't it!!

And that makes five replies from you today in this newsgroup, all wrong or
beside the point.
Lurk and learn. Malke makes a good model.

Phil Weldon

| What he siad is correct (partially). When you delete a portion, you CAN
NOT
| recover the contents, UNLESS you made a daily-weekly backup of your
computer
| (which im sure you did)! HA HA! That last parts funny, isn't it!!
|
| "(e-mail address removed)" wrote:
|
| > Hi and thanks in advance. When I remove the partition does it delete
| > the contents within the partition or does it just incorporate
| > everything into one partition? I was putting in a fresh install of
| > Windows XP and I forgot that I had my USB drive connected to my
| > computer and I accidentally removed the partition on that USB drive as
| > well. If it deleted the contents, is there any way to recover it? If
| > so, how? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
| >
| >
 
Sure i could recover it, but the question "---gmail.com", proably doesn't
know how, and proably she isn't a "pro" like you!
 
ETLCS said:
Sure i could recover it, but the question "---gmail.com", proably
doesn't know how, and proably she isn't a "pro" like you!
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LOL! Changing your tune like that doesn't fool anyone. There's a giant
difference between "you CAN NOT recover the contents" [emphasis yours] and
"proably doesn't know how." Obviously the original poster doesn't know how,
or he wouldn't have asked, but if you want to help someone who doesn't know
how to do something, you don't tell him it isn't possible, you tell him how
to do it.
 
'ETLCS' wrote:
| Are you stalking me? I bet if you tryed 1 or 2 of my hints, they would
work!

No, just trying to encourage you to listen, read, and learn before making
incorrect suggestions. Another, more embarrassing way to learn is to post
incorrect information in answer to questions.

One of the great things about technical newsgroups like this is that
incorrect information is pointed out fairly quickly. It is great to want to
be helpful, but first, do no harm.

Phil Weldon

| Are you stalking me? I bet if you tryed 1 or 2 of my hints, they would
work!
 
Phil said:
Wrong.
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You have no facts to back you up...
merely saying "wrong" is fairly useless...

However...my answer was a bit too brief...as in theory

the data could possibly be retrieved through some very expensive lab work...

however in all the years i've been on usenet...i have never once heard
of a case where data actually was retrieved...

had the partition been undeleted by partition magic...the data would
still have been there...it happend to a friend of mine and it worked!!!

howeve once the partition has been recreated by windows...
it's time for lab work
 
'philo' wrote, in part:
| You have no facts to back you up...
| merely saying "wrong" is fairly useless.
_____

There are plenty of 'facts' to back me, and the other posters who pointed
out the same thing, up. I answered the original poster, and didn't feel the
need to justify why YOU were wrong.

Phil Weldon

| Phil Weldon wrote:
| > Wrong.
| >
| >
|
| You have no facts to back you up...
| merely saying "wrong" is fairly useless...
|
| However...my answer was a bit too brief...as in theory
|
| the data could possibly be retrieved through some very expensive lab
work...
|
| however in all the years i've been on usenet...i have never once heard
| of a case where data actually was retrieved...
|
| had the partition been undeleted by partition magic...the data would
| still have been there...it happend to a friend of mine and it worked!!!
|
| howeve once the partition has been recreated by windows...
| it's time for lab work
 
Phil said:
'philo' wrote, in part:
| You have no facts to back you up...
| merely saying "wrong" is fairly useless.
_____

There are plenty of 'facts' to back me, and the other posters who pointed
out the same thing, up. I answered the original poster, and didn't feel the
need to justify why YOU were wrong.
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In theory you may very well be right...
all I'm saying is that I've new seen a report of someone actually
getting their data back by such a method
 
If you format the drive then the data's which were lot are absolutely
recoverable but if you format and install something else on the drive then
those prevous data's gets overwritten but still recoverable but 100%
recovery is never attained in such cases.

Once I formatted my computers c driver(FAT32) to NTFS and installed Win2003
server previously I had win2000. and I managed to recover 60% data only.

So trying is worth.

Regards,
Ravi Verma
 
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