User errors' is a very common cause of data loss in modern computers. You may accidentally delete a hard drive partition or some critical files, without realizing how important it was. But if you have deleted an NTFS (New Technology File System) or FAT32 (File Allocation Table) dynamic volumes in Microsoft Windows 2000 using Disk Management snap-in, you can recover the deleted partition and stored data. You can perform Partition Recovery only if the new volume hasn't created and formatted.

When Windows Disk Management snap-in removes a hard drive partition from the dynamic disk, it deletes the file system boot sector of disk volume and then deletes volume entry from Disk Management private region database, leaving rest of the disk intact. Boot sector is the sector-0 of hard drive volume. Because both FAT32 and NTFS partitions keep backup of the boot sectors, you could recover the partition by restoring boot sector.

In order to Recover Partition, use any of the below methods-

To Recover NTFS Partition:

Re-create exactly same disk partition but do not format it. It can be hard if you don't remember exact size of the partition, particularly because Disk Management tends to the round partition sizes.

Recover backup boot sector of NTFS volume using Dskprobe.exe from end of partition.

After rewriting NTFS boot sector, close Dskprobe.exe tool.

Click Rescan Disk in Action menu of Disk Management. It must mount partition for immediate use.

To Recover FAT32 Partition:

Re-create exactly same disk partition but do not format it. It can be hard if you don't remember size of the partition as Disk Management tends to round volume sizes.

Recover backup boot sector of FAT32 partition from the sector-6 of logical volume and write it to sector-0 using Dskprobe.exe tool.

After writing FAT32 boot sector, close Dskprobe.exe tool.

In Disk Management snap-in, click Rescan Disks in Action menu. It should mount partition for immediate use.

If above methods do not work, go for Partition Recovery Software to retrieve lost Windows partitions. They perform in-depth scan of affected drive and extract all lost partitions from it. The applications enable you to carry out Partition Recovery on your own as they have self-descriptive and rich graphical user interface.

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