How to Restore Lost or Deleted Hard Disk Partition

If you have accidentally deleted a volume in Disk Management or lost hard disk partitions due to unknown reasons, don't create new partitions on the unallocated space and add files into the partition. The data overwritten by new content is irrecoverable. Thus, to maximize the chance of recovering all your files, perform hard disk partition recovery as soon as possible once you've deleted a partition. However, even if you have created a new partition and put files in it, you still have the chance to recover your lost files following the paragraphs below.

Partition Loss on Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

In most of the cases, users get their hard disk partition lost by accidentally deleting a volume in Disk Management. Another major reason for partition loss is partition table corruption. (The partition table is a kind of system file which contains critical information about the hard disk drive partitions, including the start point and endpoint of hard disk drive partition, file system, name, size and other important information of hard disk drive partition.) Besides, operating system reinstallation, incorrect manipulation, and virus infection may also cause partition loss issue.

When your Windows 11/10/8/7 partition is lost, all your files and folders stored in the partition is lost and you'll not be able to see any tracks of the hard disk drive partition in Windows Disk Management. Thus, how to restore lost hard disk drive partition becomes urgent.

How to Recover Deleted/Lost Hard Drive Partition in Windows 11/10/8/7

Actually, to recover your deleted partition in Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7, you only need a reliable partition recovery tool.

The Tool You Need: Hard Disk Partition Recovery Software

Qiling Partition Recovery is a powerful partition recovery tool that you can use to recover lost or deleted partition. This software is designed to recover files and partition from lost or deleted partition. It fully supports all Windows systems such as Windows 11/10/8/7 and you can restore whatever you've lost from the lost hard disk partition. It will help you recover partition lost due to accidental deletion, corrupted partition table, power failure, bad sectors, and more. With Qiling hard disk partition recovery software, you can retrieve your precious files and partition within minutes.

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How to Restore Lost Hard Disk Drive Partition

You can use the software to scan the disk for lost partition and then preview the files according to your needs before the recovery process.

Step 1: Run Qiling Partition Recovery on your PC.

Select the disk or device where you lost partition(s) and click the "Partition recovery" button in the "Disk management" page.

Step 2. Select the rang of scan and click "Proceed".

Step 3. Preview the Partitions in the List

After the scanning, you will find all the partitions in the list. Tick the partitions to preview.

Step 4. Recover Lost Partitions

Find and Select the partitions you want to recovery, then click "Recovery".

Qiling partition recovery software will help you recover both the partition and the files on it. If you want to recover files from the lost partition only and create a new partition on the unallocated space by yourself, you can try another way to perform data recovery from lost partitions.

How to Restore Lost Data and Create a New Partition

The trustworthy hard drive recovery software - Deep Data Recovery will help you recover all the files and folders in the lost partition, namely from the unallocated space. However, unlike Qiling Partition Recovery, it won't recover the partition for you. Therefore, you can create new partitions on the unallocated space as you like after recovering the deleted files from the lost partition.

You can refer to the article about how to recover data from deleted/lost partition and then follow the steps below to create a new partition.

Method 1. Creat partition with Qiling partition tool

Step 1. Launch Qiling Partition Master, click the partition you intend to format and choose "Format" in "Disk management" page.

Step 2. In the next window, set the Partition label, File system, and Cluster size for the partition, then click "Proceed".

Method 2. Creat partition with Disk management

Step 1. Right-click on "This PC" and choose "Manage".

Step 2. Go to "Disk Management".

Step 3. Right-click on the unallocated space on your hard drive and choose "New Simple Volume..."

Step 4. Then follow the New Simple Volume Wizard to specify the volume size, assign a drive letter, format the partition...

After creating a new partition, you can use it for data storage again.

The Bottom Line

Accidentally deleting a volume in Disk Management happens quite often. However, what occurs more frequently is accidentally deleting data on a computer hard drive, external hard drive, USB flash drive, memory card, and other storage devices. That's why you can't miss deep data recovery software that will help to rescue your data whenever you get your data lost. If you don't want to lose files completely, it's highly advisable to back up your precious files regularly, either by manually copying files or using free backup software.

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