5.4. Recovering a Lost Partition

Stellar Data Recovery allows you to search and recover data from lost and deleted partitions of a hard disk. You should use this option to recover data from an accidentally deleted partition. This option will search and list all the deleted and lost partitions in the hard disk along with existing volumes.

To recover lost partition:

1. Run Stellar Data Recovery.

2. From Select What to Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. Everything, Documents, Folders & Emails or Multimedia Files, you want to recover.

3. Click Next.

4. On Recover From screen, select Can’t Find Drive from Connected Drives.

5. Click Scan. The following screen is displayed:

6. In the Select Hard Drive to Search Lost Partition window, all the hard drives connected to the system are listed with their details. From this window, choose a hard drive you want to scan for lost partitions and click Search. A scan for lost or deleted partitions will be performed in the selected disk or drive.

7. ‘Search Completed Successfully‘ message will appear showing the number of partitions found in the selected hard drive. If the desired partition is not visible run the Extensive Partition Search option given at the bottom-left of the screen.

8. All the partitions that are found will be listed in the Select Partition to Recover Data window as shown below:

9. From the list of partitions found, select any desired partition and click Scan to continue with the recovery process.

10. For information on how to preview and recover the scanned data, see Previewing Scan Results and Saving the Recovered Files.

Note: If you wish to save the scanned information and resume the recovery process at a later stage, see Saving the Scan Information.

Note: If you can’t find your desired partition in the Partition Found section, you can choose the Extensive Partition Search option to perform a comprehensive scan of the selected drive for deleted or lost partition.

 

Related link:

Click on Knowledge Base Article "How to perform lost Windows partition recovery with Stellar Data Recovery software?"