1 Topic by agonche

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Topic: Help, need to recover important data

Okay, I just did the mos stupid thing since I've been using computers.
Here's what happened:

I have a 100GB HDD on my laptop.
This HDD had two partitions. C (OS with about 44GB) and D (DATA with almost 50GB).
So I thought lets take some space from the C partition and make the D partition exactly 50GB
(stupid OCD).

The program started doing it's job and what do I do, I CLICK CANCEL.

Now there are 3 partitions, C which is fine I think, and two other partitions with DATA. One is about 2GB unallocated an the other about 48GB unknown.

How do I recover the data.
Please help, I don't know why I did this, I just like to experiment.

2 Reply by class413

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Re: Help, need to recover important data

First, you could try the free "testdisk", that is included in the GParted livecd.
It can recover partitions in many cases, especially if the data relocation didn't start at the cancel moment (there is a first simulation phase).
Otherwise, there is the (free) "photorec" that is able to scan the hard drive to recover files, even in the case of a broken filesystem of a broken partition table.

Before trying recovery, I would advice to mace a clone copy of the drive so that you can repeat recovery attempts if something goes worse.

*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***