Recover a disk after failed gparted resize

Question

I was trying to resize an external ntfs hard drive, so that I could make room at the front of the disk for a swap partition. At the end of the process gparted encountered an error. It couldn't see my disk again until I rebooted the system. Now, when it looks at the hard drive, it sees it as one big unpartitioned hard drive.

I'm pretty sure all the data is still there, uncorrupted. I just can't access it. How can I fix this?

Answer 1

I used some old tools from Acronis (I don't remember the whole name), but you can try this utity: Partition recovery

Or you can try to use this utility under Linux: PartImage . If you have no idea how to start it - the most simplest way is Live CD SystemRescueCD