How to recover files from deleted, missing or lost partitions?

What is Partitioning?

Simply speaking, partitioning is to divide mass storage into isolated sections. Under DOS system, you can partition a disk, and each partition will work like a separate disk drive. Partitioning is particularly useful if you run more than one operating system. For example, you might reserve one partition for Windows XP and another for Windows 7.

In addition, partitioning on DOS and Windows machines can improve disk efficiency. This is because the FAT system used by these operating systems automatically assigns cluster size based on the disk size: the larger the disk, the larger the cluster. Unfortunately, large clusters will result in disk space waste which is called slack space. To help partitioning and make better use of your disk, there are many tools, such as Fdisk, Partition Magic, EASEUS Partition Master. While you may delete a partition accidentally when partitioning or lost partitions because of virus attack, you will need to recover files from the deleted or lost partitions.

Why files can be recovered from deleted or lost partitions?

Whether partition can be recognized by system or not depends on the partition table and boot sector of partition. If partition table or boot sector of partition is destroyed by virus or deleted accidentally, you will not see the partition you need. But in fact, the data is still there so the partitions are not actually lost. EASEUS Partition Master will analyze the hard disk and list the deleted or lost partition, after that you can recover files from these partitions

How to recover files from deleted or lost partitions?

Both EASEUS Partition Master free Home Edition and commercial editions provide Partition Recovery module to recover files from deleted or lost partition. If you are using the free edition, please turn to How to Recover files with EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition for more detailed instruction.

1. Run EASEUS Partition Master, click "Wizard" > "Partition Recovery Wizard".

2. Run "Partition Recovery" module, where you'll find all existing hard disks, select the one you want to recover and click "Next".

3. EASEUS Partition Master will start Quick Partition Searching to scan the hard disk for all the lost partitions and will present the list of found partitions.

4. Choose the lost partition and click "Next". If the partition was not found, please tick the "Full Scan" to scan the entire disk again.

5. After building directory, you'll find all files on the lost partition.

6. Choose the files or folders to recover.

7. Choose a path to save the files.

Besides recovering files, EASEUS Partition Master provides Partition Manager and Disk and Partition Copy Wizard features. It is a complete solution to solve your disk and partition problem.

Tips: If you want to wipe the data on a partition completely to protect your privacy, please refer to How to delete and wipe partition?

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