LOST My "E" DRIVE?

[SiHawk]

PLEASE Help me out of another Terrible "Senor" Moment - can't believe I did it, BUT, I DID!
Yesterday when going about cloning my "C" Drive using my EASEUS Program, it would not give me my regular choice of the "H" Drive on the external HD to clone to.....it gave me my "E" Drive on the 'puter....don't know why but I chose it, then 1st time ever happened the Program said had to ReBoot 1st, should NEVER have done it!
After it started it's Clone, I shortly realized that I had made a BIG mistake and CANCELED it.....when everything came back up, my "E" Drive is inaccessible, on my puter I only have my "C" Drive now. And when I turn on my External Drive I now do have an "H" Drive which has the older clone of "C" on it.
This AM my first idea to try was to unplug the "E" Drive in the 'puter, start it up, shut it down, plug "E" back in and start up and see if that will get "E" up and running again....have not done that yet.
Then I thought, hey, do a restore, tried to restore to point on the 10th, but it actually told me that E was not there, so that did not work - BUT it did acknowledge an E Drive!
PLEASE share if you know the easiest and best way of getting E Running again and I just hope and pray that everything might still be on it!

Thank YOU, michael

 

[ElFenix]

if i'm reading your story correctly, you accidentally picked your e: drive as the backup target rather than h:, is that correct? if the backup was bit for bit cloning the drive (rather than cloning the data to an image) then it erased the partition on e: in the process.

which EaseUS program were you using?

 

[SiHawk]

if i'm reading your story correctly, you accidentally picked your e: drive as the backup target rather than h:, is that correct? if the backup was bit for bit cloning the drive (rather than cloning the data to an image) then it erased the partition on e: in the process.

which EaseUS program were you using?

EaseUS TODO Backup9.3.....................I it set tod do SSD Bit by bit......BUT......it barely started after re-boot and I CANCELED it! Did I still LOSE everything on E?
WHY doesn't my 'puter even see "E" Drive now even if it is empty?
Do you think, if I try the reconnect the E drive that my puter will see it again at least and I can start putting programs back on it?
TKS

 

[Nashemon]

I don't think there's any way to roll back the drive once the partition table is overwritten. There are programs out there that say they can, but in my experience they don't work. The only option is data recovery and format at this point. I've mentioned it before on this forum, but try GetDataBack Simple to see what data can be recovered.

 

[SiHawk]

This all happened yesterday and now my puter sees bhe "E" Drive as "missing".....so I figured it had to have been removed from the Registry.....I read where picking a Restore point would, of course, restore the registry to that date.....so I took a shot, figuring nothing now to lose, and after restore and re-boot my system hopefully will at least SEE the E Drive. Took awhile and it said restoring REG.....I prayed, and thought may be in luck.....when it re-booted, I got a message that it could not do it, could not access a file or something that it needed and maybe me having my AVirus ON may be causing this, suggested I might try turning OFF my AV and try to restore again. WHAT do U think?

Will check out your suggestion and scope out that Program.

TKS

 

[SiHawk]

A HEAD's UP!: I now know the E Drive is still ALIVE but EMPTY! Using "Disk Management" I was able to re-enable the Drive and it is Healthy etc., just empty, that program is $79 = YIKES!
Tried Restore again but it tells me that if I use the 10th, there is NOTHING on E, and even on the 3rd - NOTHING to restore. CRUD!

 

[VirtualLarry]

How valuable is this data? $79 too expensive, to recover from your "mistake"? Must not be anything important.

Btw, "system restore" does NOT roll-back drives that were overwritten by boot-time 3rd-party utils.

 

[ElFenix]

This all happened yesterday and now my puter sees bhe "E" Drive as "missing".....so I figured it had to have been removed from the Registry.....I read where picking a Restore point would, of course, restore the registry to that date.....so I took a shot, figuring nothing now to lose, and after restore and re-boot my system hopefully will at least SEE the E Drive. Took awhile and it said restoring REG.....I prayed, and thought may be in luck.....when it re-booted, I got a message that it could not do it, could not access a file or something that it needed and maybe me having my AVirus ON may be causing this, suggested I might try turning OFF my AV and try to restore again. WHAT do U think?

Will check out your suggestion and scope out that Program.

TKS

the drive would have to be given a partition in disk manager before windows can see it as a drive letter. seems you've gotten that part done already.

try piriform's "recuva" program, it's free. set it to do a deep look at the drive. you'll need to recover any files to another drive, so plug in your H: drive and set that to restore into.

also, once you download recuva, unplug your computer from the internet. you do not want windows to look at all that space and think that's a great place to download a bunch of updates to.

 

[Ketchup]

Also agree recuva is a good program.

EaseUS also has one of their own:
https://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

 

[bradly1101]

Make multiple backups of all cared about bits, at least one external (eSATA/USB...).

 

[Revolution 11]

You could try Minitool's Partition Wizard. I had a secondary data drive that lost its partition table due to a power failure. Partition Wizard managed to get the partition working again.

 

[Selena Anderson]

That is very sad when you lose valuable data in a blick on a second. There are ways you can recreate partition if it got deleted for some reason. Click on start menu type "Disk Management" and press enter. You will see a utility showing hard disk with a number of partitions and some unallocated space. Click on that unallocated space right click and press create a partition. After that use some good hard drive recovery tool to back up your data.