How to Recover Data Lost after Resizing a Partition?

Normal computer users might find difficulty in accomplishing various complex tasks in system. The most performed critical operations in system are installing or reinstalling operating system; installing dual operating systems; reformatting/ repartitioning hard drive or resizing hard drive partitions and many more. In order to carry out this kind of processes, most of the users take assistance of technical support people. However, some of the users may proceed with these tasks using manual guide or with the help of their friends. After taking many precautionary steps during these operations, there might be some unfortunate instances which might cause data loss from system hard drive.

Let us consider a scenario where user decided to resize the existing partition in order to create new partition in Windows hard drive. With the suggestions of his colleague, he tried to resize the partition containing valuable data using a third party utility. After initiating the partition resizing process, it was systematic. However, by the end of the process user finds some unknown alert messages. As he is not technically sound, he fail to inspect those pop ups there by the partition resizing process was not completed properly. After that he returned to computer panel containing set of partitions, but he got shocked to see that essential partition that he tired to resize is not in that list on Windows system.

In above discussed scenarios, one might find mistakes done by the user such as:

  • First point is, user forget to take backup of data before resizing partition containing valuable information
  • Second, he did not followed any standard method to resize the partition
  • Third, without proper knowledge he started to resize vital hard drive partition using third party application

Apart from these mistakes, in some conditions interruptions like operating system malfunctions, software conflicts, hard drive crash, etc that occur while resizing hard drive partition can even lead to loss or deletion of partition from computer hard drive. If you have lost entire partition after resize, then make use of relevant partition recovery software like Yodot Hard drive Recovery to regain data lost while resizing partition.

Resolution for recovering partition after improper resizing process:

One will get handy and simple way for recovering deleted or lost partition using Yodot Hard Drive Recovery application. This program is well designed with advanced algorithms to scan complete system hard disk in order to carry out efficient process of recovering partitions after resizing. You will get back erased or missing Windows hard drive partition along with various files such as documents, image files, audio files, video files and many more from affected partition. Apart from hard drive partitions, this utility can rescue lost or erased data from external hard drives, memory cards, flash drives, FireWire drives, etc. The program is flexible enough to retrieve data from deleted, lost, corrupted or formatted FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS 5, and exFAT partitions. This partition recovery tool is conveniently works on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems.

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Steps to restore partition after resizing on Windows system:

Note: If your hard drive gets corrupted completely after computer crash, then dispatch it and connect to the healthy Window system

  • Download and install Yodot Hard Drive Recovery software to Windows system
  • Run the application and begin the partition recovery process by following on screen directives
  • In first screen, you will find two options such as “Partition Recovery” and “Formatted / Reformatted Recovery”
  • Select “Partition Recovery” option in order to bring back data from partition after resizing on Windows PC
  • The tool displays the physical drive, select the drive and click on next button
  • The softwares scans the chosen drives and displays all the partitions present in it along with deleted or lost one
  • Later choose the erased or missing partition to perform data recovery from it and click “Next” button
  • The program again scans that selected partition and displays all the data from it. Mark the files or folders which you have to get back
  • Lastly, save the retrieved data to your preferred location on system or to external hard drives, pen drives, CD’s/DVD’s, etc storage devices.

Preventive Tips:

  • Always take support of technical persons or standard guide before accomplishing system and hard drive related tasks
  • It is your primary responsibility to take backup of hard drive data before going with any complex operations as listed above
  • Do not use the affected system to save new data in order to avoid data overwriting
  • Without any delay attempt to recover the lost or deleted partition data using well-matched data recovery software

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