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Merged recovery partition with other partition, no longer visible

Anonymous
2020-02-19T14:56:18+00:00

Hi. I merged the recovery partition with another partition (D:) on the same disk. The resulting partition doesn't show up in Explorer and has no letter in Disk management :-(. Neiher can I assign a letter to it (e.g. using MiniTool partition wizard).

Result: I can´t access the files on the former D: partition. They may even be lost? Hope not because they contain videos of our children when they were young, music I recorded on my DAW and thousands of pictures. 

Hope someone can help.

Matthew

The Netherlands

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Files, folders, and storage

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T15:35:19+00:00

    Hi Dave, thanks for your replying so fast!

    1. Minitool
    2. It's been two weeks ago but I think I first moved the Recovery Partition to the right and then merged.

    3/4. None only 'help' :-)

    5. 

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  2. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-02-19T15:44:47+00:00

    Hi Matthijs1955

    If that is that 931,41GB partition, then I am sorry, that is completely empty . . .

    If the recovery partition was to the left of that D drive, then MiniTool would have erased the D drive before merging the partitions, it is only the partition on the left that retains data in a merge operation . . .

    You could try recovery software like the free version of EaseUS to see if that can recover data from that partition . .

    To be honest, once that is done, your partitioning is a bit of a mess, on one drive you have your C drive and a partition marked as raw Data and on the other is the System Reserved partition, along with that D partition, and that system reserved partition should be on the same drive as C.

    Ideally, if that System Reserved partition was on the correct drive, then once you have succeeded or not in recovering your data the best option would be to re-initialize that drive with the D partition . .

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  3. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-02-19T15:04:04+00:00

    Hi Matthew

    1

    Did you use Minitool to merge those partitions or Windows built in functionality?

    2

    Was that Recovery Partition to the left or right of your D Drive before you merged those partitions?

    3

    Open Disk Management (accessible by right clicking your Start Button)

    4

    Right click that partition, what options are available to you on the resulting menu?

    5

    Please provide a screenshot of that Disk Management window . . .

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  4. DaveM121 869.7K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2020-02-19T16:44:29+00:00

    Hi Matthijs1955

    Seeing as Windows reports that drive is empty, and Minitool was used to perform the merge and the fact that Minitool can still see the data that Windows cannot, I think your best option would be to contact Minitool Support to see if there is some function in their software that can resolve this for you . . .

    email: ******@mt-solution.ca

    Tel: 1-800-789-8263

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T16:38:40+00:00

    Hi Dave, thanks again.

    This all happened after I built in a SSD. The SSD functions alright. I have no idea why the C: contains a partition with raw data..

    I do believe I first moved the Recovery Partition to the right before merging. 

    I already used a paid version of Recoveryrobot to recover the data. But it didn't work and the people at Recoveryrobot couldn't help me.

    I just found out Minitool was able to explore the partition, see below. That looks promising?

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