How to Recover Photos from Deleted Partition | A Useful Guide

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Have you lost your photos after accidentally deleting your partition? Do not worry! Fortunately, there is an easy and feasible solution to retrieve pictures from deleted partition even if you have no backup. Use Remo Recover, a user-friendly tool to restore more than 500 file formats including .png, .jpeg, .bmp, .svg, and many more

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What are the Causes of Inaccessible Partitions?

1) Damaged partition table:

The important component of a hard drive is the partition table and it is used by the drive to display the available partition to the user in file explorer. In case the partition table is damaged or lost due to a virus attack, power shortage, and any other reason, then the partition is lost and you won’t be able to access it.

2) Improper disk management:

While creating a new partition or resizing an existing partition, there are possibilities of deleting the existing partition and inaccessible data is the outcome. Now the deleted partition turns out to be unallocated space and there are few chances of data recovery.

3) Hard drive bad sector:

Improper read and write process affects the sectors of the hard drive. If a sector gets affected then it is termed as a bad sector. Whenever a bad sector exists in a hard drive, there are possibilities of certain file loss or even a partition loss.

You can also recover photos from the backup created using an external hard drive or a cloud backup. But the major drawback is that not all files and folders of the hard disk might not be selected for backup. In that case, we insist you choose Remo Recover Windows/Mac –Pro to restore pictures from deleted partitions.

Know What Happens After You Delete a Partition?

After you delete the partition, storage space of that particular partition is assigned as unallocated space in hard drive. This does not mean that photos stored in that partition is completely erased. Because space used by the deleted partition is still available in the system memory and there are chances of recovering photos from unallocated space.

5 Easy steps to recover photos from deleted partition:

Step 1: Download and install Remo Recover Windows tool.

Step 2: Launch the tool and select the partition from which you want to recover photos.

Step 3: Click on the Scan button after selecting the deleted partition. The tool will initiated Quick Scan and run into Deep Scan automatically to run sector level Scan.

Step 4: Your recovered data will be listed in Dynamic Recovery View, which displays all the recoverable files and folders.

Step 5: Use Deleted Files or Lost and Found Files tab to easily access files and select to recover photos from deleted partition. You can Preview selected files and Save to the preferred destination folder.

Note: Do not save the recovered files and folders to the same drive used to retrieve the files.

Key recommendations after recovering photos from deleted partition:

1) We suggest you to have a regular backup routine to avoid losing valuable data.

2)  Do not use the same hard drive until you restore data with a help of data recovery software such as Remo Recover (Windows/Mac) – Pro.

3) Be cautious in managing hard drive partitions to stay away from accidentally deleting a partition. Do not use unauthorized third party software to add or delete a hard drive.

4) Hard drive check-up for bad sectors can prevent possible data loss.

Above explained method using Remo Recover (Windows/Mac) – Pro is the best practice to recover photos from deleted partition, formatted or lost partition of a hard drive. Following any other faulty method may cause damage to the hard drive and that cause permanent data loss.

About the Author: Tony Landry

Tony Landry is a Web Content Editor at Remo Software. He loves to write, edit, and manage content for users trying to troubleshoot and fix problems on Windows, Outlook, storage drives, and Cloud storage networks. With an aptitude that transcends writing, Tony is recognized as a Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint expert. His comprehensive solutions…