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February 20th, 2015 00:00
How do i recover my data from my hard drive? or continue to install my windows 8 without any loss of data?
I deleted(formatted) my windows 8.1:
Drive 0 Partition 1: Recovery, and
Drive 0 Partition 2
Only one drive remains "Drive
I was trying to install my windows 8 from 8.1, now I'm Stuck with a Dell Inspiron that can't load it's current windows and I cant afford to format it because it locates all my data.
Please help with any possible recovery options i may have? The last thing i tried was purchase an enclosure and place my 500GB HD in it, how ever i only saw the first two aforementioned HD's
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NduH21
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February 23rd, 2015 21:00
Hi i found the solution, i had to plug my hard drive into an enclosure then:
diskpartselect disk 0thenselect partition 2thenassignosprey4
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February 21st, 2015 04:00
Hi nduh21,
Please post an image of the partitions on your hard drive in the external enclosure. Which partition contains your data? How do you know you did not format this partition?
There are utilities for restoring data from formatted partitions but you need to be extremely careful with that hard drive in the meantime. I would not make any attempt to install any version of Windows, especially since you appear to have no idea what you're doing.
NduH21
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February 22nd, 2015 01:00
During the installation screen, when I attempt to install windows8, custom installation (I didn't continue with the installation this is purely for your knowledge).
Two drives appear
Drive 0 Partition 1 527.0 MB - Primary
and
When I select the second drive (the partition with my data and previous windows)
"Drive 0 Partition 2 : Home -
Total Size 465.02 GB;
Free Space - 54.4 GB;
Type - System"
I don't get any option repartition options (only Delete, Format, refresh and load driver). Plus a small pop up appears that reads:
Windows Setup
"Windows Cannot be installed in to this hard drive space. The partition is an EFI system partition (ESP)."
NduH21
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February 22nd, 2015 01:00
Hi There thanks for your response and listed below are the drives I see in different view/attempts:
When Plugged into an enclosure (HD details Highlighted in yellow)
What I did (before) was format and delete:
Drive 0 Partition 0 : Recovery
Drive 0 Partition 1
Afterwards they all were added to an unallocated drive. I never formatted "Drive 0 Partition 2: Home" as it clearly indicates the data in it and also the Free space is still as I recall.
I hope this is what you have asked for.
NduH21
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February 22nd, 2015 01:00
And During installation if I press SHIFT+F10 (Command Prompt)
Diskpart
list disk
The Following appears
NduH21
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February 22nd, 2015 01:00
Please forgive the stream of replies this caption is on behalf of my second reply (windows installation attempt)
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February 23rd, 2015 16:00
It's hard for me to tell exactly what you've done. Deleting the recovery partition was a bad idea. I think I would just wipe the drive completely and try a fresh installation of Windows 8.
NduH21
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February 23rd, 2015 21:00
Thanks for your response, how ever the only thing wrong with that response is, formatting my hard drive is not an option for me as i only have one hard drive with all my important data (its not backed-up anywhere)