Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Window 7 partition recovery

Lets talk about windows 7 partition recovery.. This is why i am posting because I feel no one should face the trouble that I went through by accidentally deleting disk drive from 'disk management' window.

Last night I was trying to partition my disks but accidentally I deleted a very important drive fully loaded with lots of data and images. And the bad thing is win7 doesn't prompt for confirmation.

Windows 7 is a great OS, this fulfills fixes to nearly all issues that I have faced in VISTA. On my laptop Win7 system restore utility created a separate space (Disk drive) for system backup, when I launched the manage window it showed me 14 GB space reserved for backup & recovery.
This clicks me to start digging in getting lost partition back without installing external third party software.

With lots of surfing and trials I recovered the lost deleted partition.

The steps that I followed are:

  1. When you start the PC .. press F2 for more options and select "Ramdisk" option
  2. After selection it launches a window saying "Windows loading"
  3. Select the keyboard type from the drop down menu.. e.g. 'US', click on next
  4. Log in with your Admin credentials.
  5. The 'system recovery options' window will be launched. This will provide multiple options to choose the recovery tool.
  6. Click on 'System restore' option. This will restore the system to the earlier point.
That's all, you are set now...





1 comment:

  1. Nice Technote, to start with Rakesh. I must appreciate the efforts and time spent on this.

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