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I tried to change partition on my dynamic disk in windows 7 and actually deleted entire volume .

Is it possible to recover a data somehow ?

upd: a bit more explanation. it was a single HDD with 2 primary partitions, I tried to combine them into one and windows created this as dynamic drive. I wanted to change back and tried another way and selected first simple volume and chose Delete Volume in Disk management utility, but this removed ENTIRE disk. So, now I'm having one big unallocated partition.

Questions:

  1. is it possible to fully recover file system (files and folder structure)

  2. if not, how to recover data.

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    Use any euristic recovering software and recover your data to separate drive/volume. The best way - try to use all soft you find in all regimes, sometimes files not found or repaired with error are successfully recovered by another program or in another regime. PS. Do NOT write to a drive with this removed volume! Do NOT try to recover data or whole volume in-place! It can additionally damage your data. – Akina Aug 30 '18 at 09:31
  • is it possible to recovery a file system as is? – s-f Aug 30 '18 at 09:34
  • Only if you have made (and checked for consistency) full sector-by-sector (binary, from MBR till the last sector) backup of this drive. If you have a copy, you may do everything you want. If fail you always can restore the initial state of a drive. – Akina Aug 30 '18 at 09:37
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    Possible duplicate of [Recover files from deleted partition](https://superuser.com/questions/178028/recover-files-from-deleted-partition) – Tetsujin Aug 30 '18 at 09:40

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I was able to recover all data with TestDisk. It's a really great tool.

So, TestDisk was able to find my last partitions and FS and I copied data via TestDisk to another HDD. Later, I experimented a bit and re-write partitions on the original drive. This returned disk to original state and after chkdsk command all files become accessible.

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