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September 16th, 2025 12:21
Dell OS Recovery Tool 3.0, delete partition & data loss
Very sad, last Friday, I did a OS recover on dell. The stupid recover tool went to delete all my partition and result my data on other driver all lost. How stupid the tool was, to delete other drives, other than recover the OS on the original OS drive.
Anyone has any idea how to recover the data? I was told by someone that not possible to recover the data for NVMe SSD. Not sure whether true or not.
Do not trust any of the tools, and disable windows auto update.
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anne_droid
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September 16th, 2025 12:42
Hi
Disable BitLocker, get any BitLocker key from MS account or similar.
To recover data etc the 'best' tool I know of is TestDisk... https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
How to use parted rescue to recover partitions:
Boot into a Linux environment (a live USB is recommended if the disk is your system drive).
Run
sudo parted /dev/sdXwhere/dev/sdXis the affected drive.Use the command
rescue start endinside parted, wherestartandendare approximate boundaries (e.g.,0% 100%for the whole disk).Parted will scan and show found partitions and ask if you want to add them to the partition table.
Confirm to restore partitions one by one.
Quit parted and verify partitions with
fdisk -lorlsblk.Mount the recovered partitions to check data integrity.
This process recreates the partition table entries without formatting or changing data sectors, allowing access to existing data.
The intent is to boot a Linux Mint (or Debian 13 Live) distro from a USB, and not install it.
Try parted (Gparted is the graphical big brother).
AND/OR
sudo apt install testdisk (it is not included in the standard download) and try that.
I have used Recuva from within windows, but that installs itself and may overwrite or just be inadequate for recovering partition tables.
IF in doubt please ask.
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