Lost Partition: Need to recover without loss of data

So I thought I would be the nice guy and try the giveawayoftheday program.

Paragon Alignment Tool...

It told me my C: & D: were not optimally aligned and listed all these great benifits of having them aligned. So I let the program do its thing and after letting it run for a while I come into the black screen telling me to choose a boot device.

I since then downloaded the ulitmate boot cd, installed it on my flash drive, and booted into PartedMagic and running GParted right now.

I see what happened. My C: is now just unallocated space, luckily my D: is still in tact so I only have one drive to worry about.

So while GParted is super great and all it does not tell me if when creating the new partition space if it will be formatting that space and causing me to lose my data. Most programs do.

So before I do anything, is there any program out there that I can boot to via CD or USB that can restore my partition without losing my data & windows install?

Edit: ok because I am too impatient to wait for help. I googled and did not find the answer but found a hint that it will tell me that data will be lost if performaning an operation that deletes data.

When creating the NTFS partition it said modifying partitions can lead to loss of data, but it was not the 'warning this will delete everything' warning so I knew it was ok.

I created that partition it only took seconds and manually added the boot flag to it.

Restarted and now I get a message that my boot manager is missing. So I am close.

I think that 1MB unallocated space I have left now must be the boot manager, but I have no idea what to format it as. Does it use NTFS? also would that be the part that gets the boot flag?

Edit 2: ok wont let me partition that 1MB space says something about -1 sectors. Also looks like my attempt to restore my windows partition didnt work well as it says I have 99.68MiB used out of 446.13GiB when it should be over 300GB of used stuff on there.

I still think it can be recovered though with the proper program so still looking for help.

 

I would try to undelete the partition
Free Partition Recovery Software - Recover Deleted FAT/NTFS/Ext2/Ext3 Partition.

I have never done this with a boot partition but only on external drives but it always worked so far.

 

Will try it. does it work on boot cd or flash drive?

I found one well known called EASEUS Partition Recovery or something like that and installed it on the work computer to use it, but it only runs directly from windows so I cant use it on a busted laptop drive unless I pull the drive out and put it in an enclosure (witch I do not have one)

I only hope that since I have created and deleted the partition 2 or 3 times now with different programs that I have not ruined recovery.

None of them formatted or redid the master table and I think those are the only deal breakers for recovery.

Edit: lol see the link you gave me is the same software I was just talking about. Hmmm what to do what to do...

 

You can create a WindowsPE Cd. But you need a windows XP cd or image to do this.
Create WinPE bootable disk to enjoy the function of EASEUS Partition Recovery under bootable CD/DVD.

 

Looks like I lost it. I just opened my desktop and did it that way.

The recovery program only see's the lost new partition with the full drive space free. It did also find the boot and could have recovered that though.

Next time I know to use this program right away if I have an issue.

 

You can also use "Partition wizard" standalone bootable CD for free.