Whole partition disappeared suddenly!!! :( (DELL 1440)

Hello guys. In my dell inspiron laptop 1440 with windows 7(64 bit) had two partitions. All of a sudden, the drive(250gb) on which had stored about 250 gb of stuffs disappeared while i was watching a movie. Just few minutes before that i had installed winzip downloaded from internet and had accessed 2 memory cards today. When I click on a shortcut which was there in that partition, it shows as in the attachment. In device management i found that 250gb is free!! The other partiton for OS is visible and working fine. What should i do?? I am very much worried please help asap.

 

Can you post a screenshot of disk management? Just type in Start search: diskmgmt.msc

 

MoInSTL, thanks for reply. The Drive that disappeared is shown as empty!! how shall i recover!!

 

Right click on that drive in disk management and choose Assign Drive Letter. I am guessing it was your D drive?

Open an elevated command prompt (right click on Command Prompt and click on Run as administrator) and type SFC /SCANNOW
SFC is system file checker.

Edit: If neither of those fix it you can try using a free partition recovery tool here.

 

No its not the drive letter issue.. he has a corrupt MBR - master boot record.... as the partition lost is logical partition, so the partition is deleted and not formatted by mistake.

The tool you linked should work , but if it doesnt use a MBR recovery software.

 

Running Startup Repair from the OS DVD on DVD boot 3 times, usually fixes the MBR so no need for a separate tool. The repair option can only run one repair at a time so running it 3 times and reboots in between each usually fixes anything else.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392

 

Thanks for the help guys appreciate it

I got my data recovered. Guess files were corrupted. So got deleted.

I recovered it using GetBackData software

 

Glad it worked out and for letting me know the outcome. I had a similar situation on my desktop RAID 0 and used Data Recovery Wizard by Easeus. They have a number of products including free back up software. I have not tried their back up program since I have Acronis True Image. Windows 7 also has it's own back up, but I have never used it. I suggest picking a back up solution to avoid another issue.

 

hi guys. After I formatted that drive and moved all ma data it was ok. But after 1 day or so it happened again i.e. the drive disappeared!!!
Then i contacted dell, i was told to format evreything and re-install OS! I did it, so far so good!