Stupid mistake is my data retrievable?

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I accidentally took my 500gb ex. and added a partition. Windows
recognizes the drive but says both partitions need to be formated the
added partition of 99g's and the leftover parition of 300somtthing
g's, I never reformatted the drive just added partitions. is it
possible to retrieve the data I had on the drive before my moron
mistake of partitioning the drive?
 
<XSuspendedX@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f841c78e-b585-4128-a85b-f30ebae13edd@18g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> I accidentally took my 500gb ex. and added a partition. Windows
> recognizes the drive but says both partitions need to be formated the
> added partition of 99g's and the leftover parition of 300somtthing
> g's, I never reformatted the drive just added partitions. is it
> possible to retrieve the data I had on the drive before my moron
> mistake of partitioning the drive?

If you simply created a new partition from free space...your data should be
there.
You will need data recovery software however.

If you deleted an existing partition,,then re-created...the recovery will be
more difficult however
 
On Dec 20, 3:43 am, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> <XSuspend...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:f841c78e-b585-4128-a85b-f30ebae13edd@18g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > I accidentally took my 500gb ex. and added a partition. Windows
> > recognizes the drive but says both partitions need to be formated the
> > added partition of 99g's and the leftover parition of 300somtthing
> > g's, I never reformatted the drive just added partitions. is it
> > possible to retrieve the data I had on the drive before my moron
> > mistake of partitioning the drive?
>
> If you simply created a new partition from free space...your data should be
> there.
> You will need data recovery software however.
>
> If you deleted an existing partition,,then re-created...the recovery will be
> more difficult however

Thank you so very much, is there any software that you recommend I
should use?
 
<XSuspendedX@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Dec 20, 3:43 am, "philo" <ph...@privacy.net> wrote:
> > <XSuspend...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> >
> > news:f841c78e-b585-4128-a85b-f30ebae13edd@18g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > > I accidentally took my 500gb ex. and added a partition. Windows
> > > recognizes the drive but says both partitions need to be formated the
> > > added partition of 99g's and the leftover parition of 300somtthing
> > > g's, I never reformatted the drive just added partitions. is it
> > > possible to retrieve the data I had on the drive before my moron
> > > mistake of partitioning the drive?
> >
> > If you simply created a new partition from free space...your data should
be
> > there.
> > You will need data recovery software however.
> >
> > If you deleted an existing partition,,then re-created...the recovery
will be
> > more difficult however
>
> Thank you so very much, is there any software that you recommend I
> should use?


I've use this one and it's worked for me...

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

there are plenty more though...there could be better ones for all I know
 
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