Deleting a non-system disk partition without user intervention is a fairly rare occurrence. Of course, the reason for deleting a disk partition (or even several) may be malware, bad sectors and other hard drive failures, but more often the disappearance of entire disk partitions with data is the result of user experiments with software that such users are not yet ready to work with.
Inside Windows, deleting a system disk partition is quite difficult, because the operating system is protected from self-destruction. As a rule, in order to cause consequences such as deleting a Windows partition or a boot sector (a small partition reserved by the system), you need to experiment with software that works from bootable media. Or inside another operating system installed, respectively, on another disk partition. Therefore, non-system disk partitions on which users’ personal data are stored are most often subject to erroneous deletion. In most cases, this data is of much greater value than the operating system, the functionality of which can be restored in extreme cases by reinstalling.
How to recover deleted disk partitions and save the data stored on them? Below we will take a step-by-step look at this process using a free program for Windows - AOMEI Partition Assistant.
AOMEI Partition Assistant has a paid edition, which provides additional capabilities for working with computer disk space. But to restore disk partitions, the functionality of the free Standard Edition of the program will be sufficient. You can download it from the official website of the developer.
1. In what cases will restoring disk partitions help, and in what cases will it not?
But before proceeding directly to the instructions, there are a few points to clarify. Below we will consider a way to restore deleted disk partitions - essentially, return them to the state they were in before deletion. The recovered partitions will have the same size, the same location in the disk partition table, and they will contain the same data as before. To restore disk partitions, a special type of software will be used - a disk space allocation manager, the AOMEI Partition Assistant program mentioned above. Partition recovery will not help solve the issue of saving data after erroneous formatting of disk partitions or removable drives. For these purposes, it is necessary to resort to the help of a separate type of program designed for data recovery: Recuva, R-studio and others.
Restoring disk partitions will not help if, after deletion, the disk space was redistributed and new partitions have already been created in place of the deleted partitions. In this case, we can only talk about data recovery using the above programs.
And one more nuance: if in Explorer or a file manager the disk partition is not visible as drive D, E, F, etc., it may not have been deleted, and its invisibility is due to the absence of a letter. The letters of disk partitions and computer devices can disappear after a system failure, experiments with Windows settings, an unsuccessful rollback to a backup copy, or as a result of other interventions in the system. The easiest way to clarify this is in the standard disk management utility. A universal way to launch it for all versions of Windows is to use the Run system service (key + R). Command to enter:
If a letter is missing, the non-system partition will be marked as good. And you can assign a letter to it using the corresponding command in the context menu.
The picture with a deleted partition (or several partitions) will be different: a certain part of the disk space will be marked “Not allocated”.
This is the diagnosis for applying the instructions for restoring disk partitions, which is given below.
2. Recovering non-system disk partitions
In the AOMEI Partition Assistant program window after launching it, we will see the same picture as in the Windows Disk Management utility - the deleted partition in the table at the top and in the visual representation below will be marked as unallocated space.
We launch the Partition Recovery Wizard - either in the “Wizard” menu at the top or on the side panel of the program interface.
At the first stage of the wizard, select the desired hard drive, if there are several of them connected to the computer, and on the disk itself, click on the same unallocated (unallocated) space that remains after deleting the disk partition. Click “Next”.
Next we will see a window for selecting the type of search for deleted partitions. The selection scheme is simple: first we use a quick search, and if during this process the deleted sections are not found, all that remains is to repeat the procedure with the choice of a full search. Click “Next”.
The section is found, mark it with a checkmark and click the “Go” button.
End of operation.
The deleted disk partition has been restored. The folders and files stored on it were not damaged.
If several disk partitions were deleted, after searching, you need to check the boxes for all detected partitions and restore them.
3. Recovering Windows system partitions
Restoring erroneously deleted Windows system partitions will return the operating system's ability to boot. But the operation of restoring drive C and the boot sector, compared to restoring non-system disk partitions, is more complicated in that you will have to work with bootable media. And to create one you need a working computer device. On such a computer you need to install AOMEI Partition Assistant and create an emergency Live disk using the program. In the side panel of the program window, launch the bootable CD creation wizard. At the first stage of the wizard, select the “Create a simple Windows PE” option (since the second option requires fiddling with additional AOMEI software). Click “Next”.
We boot the computer from a disk or flash drive. In the AOMEI Partition Assistant window, in our case, we see that both system partitions - drive C and the 500-MB boot sector - have merged into a single unallocated space. To restore Windows, we follow the same path as for saving non-system disk partitions, described in the previous paragraph of the article. Launch the Partition Recovery Wizard.
Click on an unoccupied space.
Select quick search. If it doesn’t help, repeat the operation by selecting a full search.
We mark the sections found by the program. Click “Go”.
System partitions have been restored.
Have a great day!
After installing Windows 10, the user may notice a small hidden partition (from 300 to 450 MB). It contains the “Recovery” folder, and in it there is a “WindowsRE” directory with a WIM image (Winre.wim), which contains system recovery tools. The same tools are available on the installation media. Therefore, users are often interested in how to delete the recovery partition on a Windows 10 hard drive by adding it to the total volume. Let's take a closer look at this process.
Step-by-step instructions for deleting the Windows 10 recovery partition
If you click “Start”, “Settings”, select the “Update and Security” section, and then “Recovery”, “Special boot options” and click “Restart now”, the system will restart the computer and you will be taken to the operating system setup environment.
In this environment, you can choose to restore the system, roll back to an earlier state, and perform various settings using the command line.
Despite the usefulness of all these tools, they are on the installation disk or flash drive. Therefore, if you are sure that you will roll back Windows 10 and fix errors using installation media, you can delete the recovery partition. You can do this as follows:
- We create bootable media of the same version and bitness of Windows 10 that you have installed (if you do not have a previously created installation flash drive or disk).
- Then we boot from this flash drive. The operating system installation window will appear. Press the key combination “Shift+F10”. The command line will appear.
- Next, we introduce the following tasks in order.
- Diskpart;
- lis dis (a list of all installed disks will appear);
- sel dis 0 (select the drive with Windows 10 installed);
- lis par (command to view disk partitions).
- Use the following commands to delete three hidden partitions in Windows 10:
- Recovery 450 MB;
- System partition 100 MB or (EFI);
- MSR 128 MB. This is the partition that is required for GPT partitioning (it is not visible in Disk Management).
- We leave only the partition with the installed operating system. To delete these three partitions, enter the following commands in order:
- sel par 1 (first section);
- del par override (delete the first section);
- sel par 2 (second section);
- del par override (delete the second section);
- sel par 3 (third section);
- del par override (delete the third section).
- At the next stage, enter create par efi size=100 to create an encrypted (EFI) system partition of 100 MB.
- Next, enter format fs=FAT3 (to format and create a partition in FAT32).
- Now we create a partition of 128 MB, entered the command create par msr size=128.
- Click lis vol. A list of disk partitions will appear. We see that the partition with Windows 10 is assigned a drive letter (C:).
IMPORTANT! In your case there may be a different letter.
- Type exit to exit diskpart.
- bcdboot C:\Windows, where C is the letter of the partition with the operating system installed.
- Exit.
After completing these operations, you should restart your computer. Now go to “Disk Management”.
In this tool, we see that the deletion was successful and freed space appeared. It needs to be attached to the local drive C. For this purpose we use the program AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition.
- Let's launch the program. We select the disk to which we want to attach free space. From the menu on the left, select “Resize/Move.”
- Check the box “I need to move this partition” and drag the slider to the limit to give all the space to drive C.
IMPORTANT! Make sure there are zeros in the “Unallocated space” section.
- Click “OK” and click “Apply”.
- Next a window will open. Click “Go”.
- The computer monitor will blink as the program enters a special boot mode. A window will appear. Click “Yes”.
- The system will reboot. On a black background, the freed space will be appended.
The recovery partition on Windows has been deleted and joined to the shared space.
To learn how to delete the recovery partition in Windows 10, watch the video:
Today we will talk about deleting non-system partitions. I will say that deleting an entire section is most often associated with the participation of the user himself. Of course, the partition can be damaged by viruses or a regular hard drive failure, but, as I said, the user is often the cause of such troubles. Moreover, he could experiment with some software that he was not ready to work with and did a bunch of bad things.
The most interesting thing is that it is not so easy to delete a partition from a Windows system, because it is protected from self-destruction. To delete a partition, system or non-system, you need to try really hard. The user may have known what he was doing, but due to inattention, he deleted the wrong section. What if it contained important data? That's right, be more careful in future.
Today we will fix such problems. How to recover deleted partitions? Very simply, we will use a free software called .
Like any other similar program, AOMEI Partition Assistant also has a paid version, which provides additional features; fortunately, the free version is enough for us to recover partitions. You can download it from the official website.
When can recovery help and when can it not?
Before you get started, you need to clarify a couple of points that are very important. Yes, we will restore deleted partitions, and all the data that was on them will remain safe and sound, they will have the same volume and the same place in the partition table. If you accidentally formatted a partition, you will not be able to recover lost data using AOMEI Partition Assistant. Fortunately, to get started you can use good utilities, such as R-studio, Disk Drill and many others.
If, when deleting a partition, the disk space was redistributed, and new partitions were created in place of the partitions that were deleted, then this is also a controversial issue. Restoration can be carried out using the same programs that I indicated just above.
It happens that the partition is not actually deleted, but a letter is simply not assigned to it; the partition letter may disappear due to a failure in the system or thanks, again, to the user. To understand whether the radel is really not deleted, but simply does not have a letter, you need to go to the disk management utility. To do this we press the keys Win+R and in the “Run” window that opens, enter the command:
| diskmgmt.msc |
The section that does not have a letter will be OK, but will be shaded. You need to right-click on it and select "Change drive letter or drive path".
If the section is deleted, then it will say "Not distributed", and the top strip will not be blue, but black.
Now, if you understand that your partition has been deleted, let's begin restoring it.
How to recover a deleted partition?
Once you have downloaded and installed the AOMEI Partition Assistant program, launch it and get to work. In the program window, the deleted partition will be defined as "Unoccupied" space.
Click on the item in the top menu "Master" and select "Partition Recovery Wizard". The same thing is in the left panel of the program.
At this stage we need to select the desired hard drive, if there are several of them installed, then we must click on the unallocated space and click "Further".
Here we must first choose "Quick search", if during the process no deleted partitions are found, then use "Full search".
As soon as the deleted partition is found, put a checkmark next to it and click on the button "Go".
The end of the process will look like this:
Now the deleted partition has been restored, and the data that was not damaged on it has been restored.
If during the search process several deleted sections were discovered, then you just need to tick all the items.
How to restore the system partition?
This option is complicated because when restoring system partitions, for example, a partition with an operating system, we will use bootable media. To create such media, you will need to have a working system, so we will install the AOMEI Partition Assistant program on it and use it to create a bootable Live disk.
In the left panel of the program we must click “Make a bootable CD master” and in the window that opens select the item "Create a simple Windows PE". The second option also exists, but there is a lot of fuss with additional software. So, we selected the first item and clicked "Further".
Now we need to select the type of bootable media: optical disk, flash drive or image. I'll choose option 3, you can choose either one.
Let's launch "Partition Recovery Wizard" and select unallocated space. Click next.
First we select "Quick search", and if it did not give results, then "Full Search".
We mark the found sections with ticks and click "Go".
That's all, now you can restart your computer and boot from the hard drive, Windows should boot as usual.
Question: Is it possible to delete the recovery partition?
I'm interested in this question:
Is it possible to remove the recovery partition and merge it with the main drive without any damage?
I recently bought a laptop with an SSD drive. It’s just that there’s not enough memory, it’s a pity to spend 20 gigs just to restore Windows. Thank you in advance
Here is the disk management screen
Answer: I would leave it in case you decide to sell your laptop. 20GB won't make any difference to the weather anyway. I only lost 450MB on my computer. And you get two partitions and both restore something there.. Maybe additionally what kind of archiving is included in the OS and it uses the second partition?
Question: Windows and system recovery from a flash drive cannot boot after deleting the recovery partition
On the digma eve 8.2 3g tablet with windows 8.1, I deleted the recovery partition and merged it with drive C, after which the tablet does not start, a blue screen writes an error
Recovery. Your computer needs to be restored. The required device is not connected error code 0xc0000225 You will need recovery tools on bootable media, etc. Press the Windows key to access UEFI firmware options.
The point is that I copied the recovery partition to a flash drive in advance. But that's not the problem. I found that when loading the tablet you need to press the F7 key. I connected a flash drive and a keyboard through the hub, when I turn it on I press the f7 key, but there is no reaction, the f2 and del keys also do not bring any results, although they should allow me to enter the bios.
From the blue screen described above, I can use f8 to go to a menu in which there is a debugging mode, starting safe mode, etc. When you click on any item, it redirects you to a blue screen. "The OS could not be loaded because the HAL layer is missing or contains errors" file \windows\system32\halmacpi.dll
If you press f10, something like a console appears with the name “changing windows boot parameters” and the line already contains the line /noexecute=optin /novga
When you press enter, it again says “The OS could not be loaded because the HAL layer is missing or contains errors” file \windows\system32\halmacpi.dll
Maybe I just don’t have time to press f7 when loading because I have to first turn on the button that connects the f1-f12 keys? what can be done? When loading the tablet with the volume and power keys held down, two lines flash after the splash screen, but it is not possible to read them, they disappear too quickly.
Answer: Unlike laptops, where the recovery partition with the factory image does not participate in booting and operating the system (it only takes part in rolling back to the factory state), on tablets the system is also loaded from it (wimboot technology).
The fact that you see error 225 means that your ESP partition (FAT32) is alive and the download starts properly from it, but there is nothing to download.
The way out, IMHO, is to return everything back to how it was.
Question: Recovery partitions
Good day! I decided to break the hard one into pieces. I went into disk management and saw that there were several system recovery partitions of 300, 352 and 450 MB. So this is the question - why are they needed (if there are links to the theory, I will be grateful) and most importantly, can I remove them and what is the benefit of this.
Answer: gecata, Yes, this is a laptop. But there is another related question - the laptop was originally purchased with Win 8. Gradually I updated it to 10 and now I want to reinstall it, having previously deleted all these recovery partitions, including this 20GB one. Will I still have my license? Or is she attached in some other way?
Question: How to delete the recovery partition
Good evening.
The problem is this:
bought an SSD drive
After much pain, I transferred the system from the HDD to it
transferred the recovery disk to the HDD.
Now the problem is that I want to expand the “C” drive using the unallocated space on the SSD, but it prevents me from making a 450MB partition. how to remove or move it
Question: When the laptop boots up, the recovery partition does not start from the button (in my case ALT+F10)
Laptop: Packard Bell
OS: Windows 8.1
GPT partitions.
Hello!
The catch is this: when the laptop boots up, the recovery partition does not start from the button (in my case ALT+F10).
History of events:
1) I bought a WD-drive for terrabyte and decided to do a complete transfer from the original drive (Seagate 320 GB) to the new one.
To do this, I used the Ghost program (12.0) and made a disk-to-disk copy. All partitions were successfully copied (including service ones), but Ghost made a proportional increase in each partition (the copied partitions became approximately three times larger). Naturally, I don’t need service partitions that are three times inflated, especially the last hidden recovery partition with Windows, which became 45 GB. I fixed this whole thing with the help of Easeus-PM, because Paragon and other partition masters refused to change the service partitions. But Windows stopped loading from the new screw.
2) I tried to copy disk to disk using Paragon 15.0, checked some boxes and launched it. And something strange happened - the original screw stopped loading!
Maybe it’s all about the boxes that my “direct” hands checked.... I don’t know. I restored the Windows boot using the strange program "O Dism ++" in which the line "Restore Boots" appeared in the menu. The recovery was automatic. Windows booted again, but when loading it now offers two Windows 8.1: the first one indicating volume 4 (and the system is located on volume 4) and simply Windows 8.1. The first option works.
But here’s a new problem: during initial boot, when pressing ALT+F10, when loading the recovery partition, it gives the error 0xc000000e (the same one it gave when Windows didn’t boot)
3) After poking around on Google and reviewing a bunch of videos, I copied all the partitions from the original hard drive to the new one separately, including the recovery partition with the factory Windows. From the bootable flash program WinNtsetup installed Windows from a hidden partition (ALREADY ON THE NEW SCREW) (used the image), indicating where the bootloader will be. Everything was installed wonderfully and the licensed Windows started.
! BUT. ALT+F10 now doesn't work at all. Those. Doesn't even respond to the button.
CONFIDENTS, ATTENTION, QUESTION: How can I make the button work?)?
Answer: Everything is fine with the hidden MSR partition, it is alive and well, it has the correct ID and should not appear in disk management. There is no urgent need for it on GPT, but without it conversion to a dynamic disk will not work.
aleshka2007, show a screenshot of command execution
Windows Batch file
reagentc /info bcdedit
Question: The laptop does not find the recovery partition
Launched refresh. There was preparation for setup. It was there for a long time and so I decided that the computer had frozen. Pressed the off button. Turned it on. Logged into Windows. In the middle there is a strip with the message “no changes have been made.” Neither refresh nor reset work now, although they worked. When I try to do a reset/refresh it says that there are no necessary files. In Disk Management, the recovery partition is empty. but in AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition 5.2 there is information there (about 8 GB). The recovery disk did not come with the Lenovo B 590 laptop, I didn’t think of creating it myself. I don't know what to do now.
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P.S. After I turned it on, before logging into Windows there was something like “disc c repair”
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Lenovo technical support says that you need to take it to a service center, and there they will restore everything for a fee...
on the Microsoft website when trying to ask a question - error 404,
"If the product does not perform as warranted during the warranty period, you may contact Lenovo representatives or to an authorized service center that provides warranty service"
Are representatives salespeople? Can they do anything even though the software is not under warranty?
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(a service center is not an option, because it’s in Vladivostok, and I’m already in Ussuriysk.)
Answer:
Message from Anton Heim
the manuals helped.
The following sequence of actions helped:
1) charms > options > change computer settings > general > special boot options > restart now
2) a blue screen appeared. And there I already pressed something like recovery. Did a reset.
3) now refresh/reset and the restore button work!
(I don’t know how important it is that Windows was in safe mode (I don’t even remember how I started it))
Question: Error 0x0000225 at startup: I decided to delete the recovery partition and Windows no longer boots
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There is not enough space on the tablet, I decided to remove the recovery partition and Windows no longer boots, I can’t remove the hard drive, it is soldered in, the same error 225.
How can I restore Windows?
Answer: This means a new installation, but oh well, the Windows key is not accustomed to bit depth, can I install x64?
what's the difficulty? I don’t understand well, can you explain in simple words?
Question: PackardBell ENTA-GM Recovery Section
Please help me find an image of the PackardBell ENTA-GM recovery partition, I really need to look everywhere
If anyone has it, please send me the link.
Answer:
Quote FlomasterAFK:
DDR2, frequency 800 MHz = 6400 MB/s
HDD at 5400 rpm = 100 MB/s
I ask again: what is the name of the video card in Device Manager?
Question: Recovery partition error An OS wasn't found.
Hello.
Switched to Win10 from 8.1
In order for Windows to become licensed, you must first update it and don’t care that many people want to install it completely. In general, I updated, received a license, and started a clean installation. I felt that something was wrong and saved the recovery partition on another computer. I completely deleted all partitions and repartitioned everything normally. And of course, after a clean installation, Windows refused to activate and blocked the key. The small-soft forum did not respond, and I decided to restore to 8.1 and update again. But new problem:
I definitely forgot to do something.
There was a recovery partition on the Lenovo laptop, the data from which I dumped to another location. Now the partition was needed and I created a new partition, dropped all the files there, assigned id = 27 and made the partition active.
As a result, when loading: An OS wasn't found.
I'm probably not even asking the question in the right place
Thank you.
If you can’t handle the second option yourself, then write, we’ll deploy the factory image on either MBR or GPT. We will need screenshots from you, a lot.
Question: I deleted the section. How to restore files to the same partition?
Using the recovery program, I scanned ZAR, the files are visible, but at the moment I have nowhere to copy everything. There is another partition and a flash drive, but everything won’t fit there. There was a lot of free space on the deleted partition. But the Zar program does not allow you to somehow shrink or move it. I'm afraid to divide the lost section into two parts. Because I'm afraid that the partition has been fragmented, and one file may be scattered in pieces throughout the partition. Question, is there such a program that could manipulate files on an invisible partition, just like on a regular one?
Answer: A more precise background: There were three partitions c, d and e. In the standard "disk management" I deleted e instead of d (it was quietly highlighted). As a result, my disk e began to show one and a half terabytes instead of 200 GB. Akronis didn’t see anything after that. Therefore, I removed drive D to clarify the situation. The sizes of all disks took the real size.
After Zar I tried partition table doctor as it was claimed to be the best program for partition recovery. Indeed, immediately upon launch a message appeared about some sectors not matching. I made a backup of the table using the same program. I was glad that no virtual machines were needed. But it's early. The fixboot button resulted in the message: “I can’t restore.” The rebuild button led to the fact that my disks c and d were rebuilt, but e remained untouched.
I tried the testdisk, but the messages: “mismathes”, “seems too small”, “cant recover partition” made me realize that in the two days that I was fiddling with the screw, I could earn money on the disk and restore the information, but as a result, neither , nor anything else.
Almost all computers that come with an operating system Windows 8 have a dedicated system recovery partition consisting of important files needed to reset or Windows 8 recovery to factory condition.This recovery partition typically consumes about 15 GB of disk space. Since most computers that are available today can offer at least 500 GB of disk space, users may not feel the need to free up more disk space. But users who purchased a computer with a 64 or 128 GB SSD (Solid State Drive) may want to free up some space by removing this system recovery partition.
Moment partition recovery consists of recovering images and other important files, before deleting the recovery partition,you must first go to recovery partition USB flash drive .After moving recovery partition delete recovery partition. You can then use a new USB recovery drive to restore Windows 8 to factory settings.
Follow the step by step instructions below to move recovery partition to a USB stick and then delete recovery partition in Windows 8.
NOTE: This procedure only works on Windows 8 and doesn't work on Windows 7.
Step 1: Connect a USB drive that has at least 16 GB of storage space (you may need more USB space if recovery partition larger than 16 GB) and backing up all data to a safe location. This USB storage device will be erased.
Step 2: Switch to the Start screen, type Create a recovery disk change search filter Options(see Figure), and then press Enter to launch the Disk Recovery wizard. If you see UAC, just click the Yes button.
Step 3: After starting the Disk Recovery wizard, check the option Copy PC recovery partition to recovery disk, and then click Next.
Step 4: Select the USB drive and click Next.
Step 5: You will see the message “Everything on the disk will be deleted. If you have personal files on the drive, make sure you back up the files." Since you have already transferred all data from USB, click on the button Create to start the transfer recovery partition to the selected USB storage device. Depending on size Windows recovery partition This process may take several minutes (or hours to complete).
Step 6: When Windows 8 complete copying recovery partition to the USB drive, you will see the message “You can also delete recovery partition on your PC to free up some disk space”, and a parameter named Delete recovery partition.
Step 7: Click the button Delete recovery partition to see an error message saying “You may need to free up some disk space, deleting the system recovery partition, but you won't be able to update or restore your computer again without a recovery disc.” Since you've already transferred recovery partition to a USB stick, you can safely remove disk recovery partition.
Click the button Delete And recovery partition will be deleted. After the job is done, Windows 8 will show you how much disk space you have gained by deleting the recovery partition. Good luck!