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Waoper
Jun 23, 2025Iron Contributor
How to recover data from a deleted partition in Windows 11 for free?
My external drive is not showing up correctly in Windows 11 file explorer and it reminds to format the drive before using it. In fact, the computer has one internal ssd and hard drive. I deleted the ...
AndrewUias
Jun 23, 2025Iron Contributor
If your drive's partition was deleted and you want to restore it, you can try to use Disk Management or Diskpart to Rebuild Partition.
Using Diskpart to recover data from a deleted partition in Windows 10:
- Open Command Prompt as Administrator.
- Type diskpart and press Enter.
- List disks: list disk.
- Select your external drive: select disk # (replace # with your drive number).
- List partitions: list partition.
- Create a new partition with create partition primary.
- Format it: format fs=ntfs quick.
- Assign drive letter: assign.
Warning: This will overwrite the partition table; only do this if you want to recreate a partition and are okay with losing existing partition info (but data recovery is better if you try to recover first).
If the data is critical, consider consulting professional data recovery services to recover data from a deleted partition in Windows 10. Free tools are effective but may not recover everything, especially if data has been overwritten.