After moving to SSD I deleted the System Partition (100MB) from my previous drive, causing mass destruction.
I tried to delete the System Partition which windows 7 creates (on my previous disc as I moved to SSD) and when I tried to extend the main partition size to include the new Unallocated Space it asked me if I wanted to convert the disc to Dynamic.
I simply pressed yes and the partition simply disappeared into unallocated space. All of my family pictures / videos lost.
After reading an article on Microsoft they said to recreate the partition with the same exact size, so I tried to do that but it didn't work. I did not format the drive at all when I created partitions.
How can I possibly recover the partitions?
Thanks!
Best Answer
Disconnect the drive and stop using it for now. Otherwise you may risk overwriting files.
After you do that I advise you to download a LiveCD to try to recover that. I usually go with Hiren.
Download it, burn on a CD and boot from it. Once there, start the Mini Windows XP. Once in there, use the tools there to try to recover the partition.
The very first thing I'd do is to make and image of the disk to another place so you won't risk losing the stuff. It's been a while since I had this problem but I think Partition Saving can help you there. If not, there's other tools there. Give them a try. There's more tools on the Restored Version - the normal version has only free softwares.
If you don't have a spare disk/space to save the data you may lose some data since the files might be overwritten.
There's even a tutorial on Hiren's to help you recover data. Go check it.