Lost Partition Information after 'Recover Files'

Recuva
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I recently wanted to do a clean install of Windows so I swapped my boot drive to a secondary postion and added a new boot drive. Installed Windows on the new boot drive and started to move off my important files and items from the old C drive. So this is what I have:

Drive 0: C:\ (whole drive single partition)

Drive 1: Part 1: e:\ (old boot drive with old windows)

Drive 1: Part 2: f:\ (documents partition)

Drive 2: X:\ (drive for storage)

Once I was installed and working, I formatted e:\ so that I could create a new drive for program installation separate from c:\ -- WOOPS! I forgot to grab a few files from the old windows install! My bookmarks from Firefox and a few Saved Games files. No problem really, nothing has been written to the drive yet, so I remember Recuva and install it to my new C:\ and run a deep scan... wait two hours... skim through 500k files found and find about 25-30 files that are excellent recovery items, and recover them to a folder on my x:\ BAM! I realize something has changed because a few of my taskbar icons change to unknown image instead of logo.

I open My Computer and I now have an UNFORMATTED E:\ and a tiny 12gb F:\ labeled 'Factory_IMage'

I have lost almost 350GB of data stored on my original F:\

What can I do?

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The chances are you always had a 12 GB partition with the label Factory IMAGE,

but you never saw it because no drive letter had been allocated to it - it was concealed for safety.

How about a screen shot of what "My Computer" shows.

I have seen it display both NTFS and FAT32 "File Sysytems", but never seen the word UNFORMATTED.

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Hi dave, and welcome to the forum.

I've just been trying to get a picture of your new setup since moving the drives around.

Firstly it appears that your F: partition is probably OK as that would be your factory installed "Recovery Partition", usually labelled D:, and would have been about the size you mention (12gb). Mine was actually about 9gb.

I'm not exactly sure, but it sounds like you may have accidentally deleted your E: partition, and if that is the case, you should be able to "Undelete" it.

I think the best thing to do at this stage would be to try scanning for a lost partition, and see how that goes.

Download and install "EASEUS Partition Recovery 5.0.1"

http://www.softpedia...-Recovery.shtml

And have a look on the home page at the various guides for "undeleting/recovering" a lost partition ...

http://www.easeus.co...ition-recovery/

The guides are on the right of the page. I didn't link you to the home site for the program download because Softpedia is a better download location than the one the home site uses.

There are also screenshots of the process here ...

http://www.easeus.co.../screenshot.htm

See how you go with that.

EDIT: You ninja'd me Alan, but we seem to be going in the same direction.