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Recover Un-allocated space on Disk?

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Using ATI12, due to a stupid mistake on my part(and drive letters changing) I set the wrong path for a restore session and created a problem. Is there a way to recover an entire 4Tb drive that Acronis changed to 'unallocated' space. The restore was not completed and I am pretty sure there was not any writing to the Disk.
Thanks for any advice.

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If there is or was nothing on the 4TB drive you should be able toright click on the disk in windows explorer and select Format.

Disk Director includes a tool called Recovery Expert that can restore deleted partitions.

Unfortunately the drive was filled with data, and the status of the drive was unintentionally changed to 'un-allocated' in Acronis. There was no writing to the drive. I used a trial version of Power Data Recovery and I can see that the Data is still there and it is retrievable if I pay for the Full version of the software but it is expensive and I was hoping there might be a simple solution. I was hoping someone from Acronis might have ideas?

You might try Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download. Its free and is designed to help these situations.

thomasjk wrote:

You might try Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download. Its free and is designed to help these situations.

Thomas, I sent you a PM with a few questions about Testdisk

Thanks for your reply

Chas if you are uncomfortable using testdisk I suggest http://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/how-can-i-recover-my-da…. This tool is menu driven and is also free.

thomasjk wrote:

Chas if you are uncomfortable using testdisk I suggest http://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/how-can-i-recover-my-da…. This tool is menu driven and is also free.

Jk........

The 'Free' Mini Tool Partition Recovery worked great!  After it worked I was thinking about purchasing the Pro edition for $39 even tho I dont think I would ever need it. The free software has almost no limitations and is very powerful, but it was worth alot to me to get this fixed and it would help the development.

I really appreciate your advice........ Thanks man,

C

Glad I was able to help.