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 What To Recover screen, select the type of data i.e. All Data or Office Documents, Emails, Audio, Photos and Videos, 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 Disk window, all connected hard drives are displayed under the Physical Disks section, along with detailed information about each drive. 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 Complete‘ message will appear showing the number of partitions found in the selected hard drive. Click Ok.

8. All the partitions that are found will be listed in the Select Partition window under Select partition to scan and recover files section as shown below:

Note: If the desired partition is not visible click on Click here link next to the Extensive Partition Search option given at the bottom of the screen.

9. From the list of partitions found, select any desired partition.

10. Click Scan to continue with the recovery process.

Note: To view the scanning details, click on the Click here link next to the Scanning details at the bottom of the screen.

Note: Click on  Stop or Pause/ Resume button to stop or resume the process.

Note: You can also perform a deep scan after a quick scan by clicking the 'Click here' link next to the Deep scan at the bottom of the screen.

11. Once the scanning process completes, details of the files and folders found would be displayed in a Scan Completed dialog box as shown below:

12. Click OK button.

13. 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.

 

Steps to Save the Scan Information for Lost / Deleted Volumes:

1. In Select Partition window, click  Back button or close the software.

2. Save Scan dialog box will appears. Click Yes.

3. In the Stellar Data Recovery Scan dialog box, specify the location where you want to save the image file. Type the name of the image file in the File name text box. Click Save button.

4. Scan saved dialog box appears with a message "Lost Partitions Scan Information is saved successfully". Click OK.

 

Steps to Load the Previously Saved Scan Information for Lost Volumes:

This option is used to resume the recovery process from a saved scan information file.

1. Run Stellar Data Recovery software.

2. Click  Resume Recovery icon and select the previously saved Scan Information.

3. A Resume Recovery window will appear which displays a list of saved scan information files existing in the system.

4. In case the file you desire is not in the list, click  Add button and select the desired file.

5. Click Open.

6. The file you added gets displayed in the Resume Recovery window. Click Remove button if you want to remove the save scan file.

7. Select the required Lost Volume and click Resume button.

8. Clicking on the Resume button will display results for Searched Lost Partition History window as displayed.

9. Select the required Lost Partition and click Scan to start the scanning process.

Note: You can turn on the Deep Scan toggle if you want to perform a comprehensive scan of the selected volume.

Note: To view the scanning details, click on the Click here link next to the Scanning details at the bottom of the screen.

Note: Click on  Stop or Pause/ Resume button to stop or resume the process.

10. After the scan process is completed, details of the files and folders found are displayed.

Related link:

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