Partition recovery
 

I have deleted a partition on a hard drive, unfortunately it has some data on it I forgot was there.

Does anyone know of a free Partiton recovery tool I can use to attempt a restore?

Re: Partition recovery
 

Yes, download youself a copy of Ultimate Boot CD and boot from that, has tools that will search for deleted partitions and restore the partition table. Have you done anything to the drive since?

Re: Partition recovery
 

I think what happened was I clicked the wrong setting on trying to repair XP (after new Motherboard install) So it may have been formatted :(

There is data there, but all the tools I can find only allow you to view, or move 500K of data, not much good when there 100Mb of piccies of my little boy in there somehwere.

Re: Partition recovery
 

There are alot of good recovery packages available and most will allow you to recover from deleted files, a formatted disk and a deleted partition. Here's a few links:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...ecoveryexpert/

http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/

http://www.recovermyfiles.com/

I don't know about any free recovery tools but there probably are some around, however, you could always just evaluate ;) some of the above packages because why shell out some money if you're not guaranteed to recover the data.

Re: Partition recovery
 

I suggest you use Partition Table Doctor to resolve your
problem.The software provides very useful functions:
Backup partition table, Restore partition table, Rebuild
partition table, undelete partition, Fix boot sector,
rebuild mbr,etc.
First thing I recommend you download the demo version of
Partition Table Doctor.( http://www.ptdd.com/download.htm )
Run the program and select "Rebuild Partition Table",
then choose "Interactive" mode. If you can find the partition
you need, that is Partition Table Doctor can help you. Otherwise,
Partition Table Doctor cannot help you.
See more: http://www.ptdd.com/recoverylostpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm
http://www.ptdd.com/partition-recovery.htm