Recovering Delete Volume

Question

Accidentally deleted volume.  Have done nothing to the disk since that moment.  Have read articles about recovering deleted NTFS volumes but the article also stated that perhaps it might not be applicablre to Windows 7.  Are there special procedures unique to Windows 7?

Article 245725 states:

To Recover a Deleted NTFS Volume

1. Re-create the exact same volume but choose not to format it. This may be difficult if you do not remember the exact size you had created originally, especially because the Disk Management snap-in tends to round partition sizes.
2. Using Dskprobe.exe, recover the backup boot sector for the NTFS volume from the end of the volume. Because it is a dynamic volume you may need to use Dmdiag.exe to help find the backup boot sector, or search for it by using Dskprobe.exe (on theTools menu, click Search Sectors).
3. After rewriting the NTFS boot sector, quit Dskprobe.
4. In Disk Management, click Rescan Disks on the Action menu. This should mount the volume for immediate use.

Answer 1

Partition Wizard Home Edition (create a bootable CD and in the menu toolbar select Wizard/Partition Recovery Wizard):

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

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Answer 2

I have been very successful with this procedure. I accidently deleted a storage drive on my wifes computer and I am still alive and healthy. LOL.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/hard-drive-support/194492-have-you-lost-hard-drive-partition-files-your-computer.html

Answer 3

I have never used the process you describe. If I was in your situation then I would tend to use a third party partition recovery tool, e.g. the one included with Acronis Disk Director 11. This is not freeware.

Answer 4

would have been nice if someone answered the question

  ratherthan changing the subject..

Answer 5

I have accidentally deleted the required volume in disk management. I am trying to recover the volume using create and mount image method. I was trying to delete volume of my external hard disk but mistakenly this happened. I would like to suggest to MICROSOFT to modify this delete volume feature. When someone attempt to delete a volume it should pop up the directory contents in an explorer to verify the user the intended directory and then it should ask whether to have back of this file as .bkf or .dim and then it should ask our final confirmation for the deletion. Some features like this are done mistakenly by some users and then they suffer to correct that. Those features has to be taken care by Microsoft to help those users. I believe Microsoft would see this and do some modifications in Windows.