NTFS Partition Recovery

What do you do when you realize that you have accidentally deleted a partition? How would you bring back the data you unintentionally deleted? There are times when we accidentally or intentionally delete data and later realize that the data was of use. Don’t feel helpless at such times because you can still recover data from your NTFS partition.

In case, you deleted your NTFS partition using the Disk Management snap-in then there are still chances of you recovering the your NTFS partition and the data that was saved in it. However, NTFS partition recovery is possible only if you have not formatted or created a new volume after partition deletion. The recovery is possible in this case because, when you delete a partition from dynamic disk using Disk Management, then it deletes the file system boot sector and removes the partition entry from its database. This is how the deleted volume and the data saved in it remain preserved. Since NTFS partitions save backup boot sectors, we can perform NTFS partition recovery easily:

1.Create a new volume of the same size as of the deleted partition. Remembering the exact size of the deleted partition can be an issue due to the size and use of Disk Management snap-in
Note- Make sure you don’t format the partition

2.Use some disk editing tool to retrieve backup boot sector for your deleted NTFS partition (please note that NTFS keeps a back up boot sector).

3.Rewrite the NTFS boot sector using disk editing tool

4.Now you will need to mount the NTFS parititon. For make the volume working again go to Disk Management > Action menu and click Rescan Disks

This must help you in retrieving the accidentally deleted partition. However, if you are suffering from the problem of data loss due to formatting or re-partition issues or if the method given above does not work then you will need to use a ntfs recovery tool to recover the data.