How do get my Windows 7 partition back after a blue screen?
Solution 1:
Are you sure you deleted windows partition from running windows? I don't think windows is dumb enough to let you do that.
Here's what you can do:
- Check which partition you actually deleted(Open each partition in explorer and see the contents)
- If you have actually deleted windows partition, you are pretty much out of luck when it comes to data.(You can try some professional data recovery tools that cost an arm and leg with no guarantee of recovery)
- If that partition(should have windows, program files etc folders) is still there, than its just boot issue.
- In that case, mark that partition as "Active" and "Boot" using any partition manager and then repair the startup(i.e. boot loader) using windows 7 dvd.
If this doesn't work, please paste a screen shot of your disk management.
Solution 2:
For partition recovery there are free tools - for example Mini Tool Partition Recovery is user friendly and I have recovered myself a deleted partition very easy. Use it from Vista - let it scan the disk and find lost partitions.
It is possible that if you delete one partition you loose more than one partition - the extended partition can hold many logical partitions which are chained one after the other. So if you loose one partition the chain of partitions is broken!
In the MBR (where the main partition information is stored) there is room for only 4 primary partition records maximum (or 3 primary and one extended partition records).