Two Easy Ways to Recover Lost Partition on External Hard Drive
Can I retrieve my lost partition on the external hard drive?
"Yes, it's possible to recover the deleted partition on your Seagate external hard drive. You can try using a partition recovery software like EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard or Recuva to scan the drive and recover the lost partition. Make sure to stop using the external hard drive immediately to prevent overwriting the deleted partition. You can also try checking the disk management in Windows 7 to see if the partition is still listed as 'unallocated' space, and then try to extend the E drive from there."
Professional Partition recovery software: 4 steps to recover external hard drive partition
If you've deleted a partition on an external hard drive, the partition itself isn't missing, but rather its information is removed from the system, making it invisible in Disk Management or File Explorer. However, the deleted partition can still be recovered.
You can recover a deleted partition on an external hard drive with the help of a proper partition recovery tool, such as Qiling Partition Assistant Professional, which is a top choice due to its highlights.
✌ Powerful: Strong technical support allows you to recover a lost partition on an external hard drive, recover a deleted boot partition on the system disk, and even recover lost data.
✌ Easy-to-use: The software is designed with an intuitive and simple user interface, making it easy for anyone to operate, even those with little computer knowledge, to recover lost partitions.
✌ Compatible: It supports Windows 10/8.1/8/7, XP, and vista, making it compatible with various Windows versions.
To recover lost partition using Qiling Disk Master Professional, follow these steps: [insert steps].
What you should keep in mind to avoid further data loss before recovering partition:
☞ Don't format the external hard drive
☞ Don't rewrite to the partition.
☞ Don't rebuild the partition table of the external hard drive.
► You can download the demo version to have a try!
Step 1. Install and run the partition recovery tool, then click "Recover" and choose "Partition Recovery" and select the external hard drive with the lost partition, and click "Next".
Step 2. Here, you have the option to choose between two search modes: Fast Search and another option. It's suggested to select the first one as it saves time. To proceed, simply click on it.
PS.: If "Fast Search" fails to find the lost partition, try using "Full Search" which will search every sector of each partition on the selected external hard drive.
Step 3. After selecting the drive where the lost/deleted partition was located, the software will list the deleted partitions. You can then choose the one you want to recover and click "Proceed" to initiate the recovery process. If you're unsure, you can click Explorer files in the selected partitions to view the files in the partition before proceeding.
Step 4. Once the partitions have been recovered successfully, you're ready to proceed with the next steps.
Notes:
▪ Qiling Disk Master Professional supports Windows 10/8.1/8/7, XP, and Vista, while Qiling Disk Master Server is designed for Windows Server 2019/2016/2012 (R2)/2008 (R2) for partition recovery.
▪ After recovering the partition, files on the deleted partition will be recovered as well. However, for formatted or corrupted partitions, data recovery software is recommended.
Recover lost partition on external hard drive via Diskpart
If your external hard drive partition isn't showing up in Windows Explorer because it's missing a drive letter, you can recover the lost partition by assigning a drive letter to it in Windows 10/8/7.
Step 1. Press Windows + R, input "diskpart" and hit the "Enter" key to open the Diskpart utility.
Step 2. Run commands as follows:
▪ list volume
▪ select volume m
▪ assign letter=n
PS.: The command "m" is the number of the partition that doesn't appear in Windows Explorer, and "n" is the drive letter that you want to assign to the partition.
Verdict
To recover a lost or deleted partition on an external hard drive, you can use Qiling Disk Master. This software can also help with other issues, such as allocating free space from one partition to another, like extending the C drive when it's full. Additionally, if you've accidentally converted a basic partition to dynamic, Qiling Disk Master can convert it back to basic without losing any data.