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I was reformatting one of my extra hard drives with Windows DiskPart and accidentally selected the wrong hard drive.

I used the clean command, but it wasn't long before I realized I cleaned the wrong one. I only cleaned the drive, I did not format it or tool with it in anyway.

The drive I wiped had two partitions on it, one was unencrypted and the other was encrypted with TrueCrypt. Is it possible to recover my encrypted partition? I do not have a backup of the header, but I've heard it's possible.

If anyone can shed some light on the situation, or point me in the right direction, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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  • If you deleted the partition then nothing can be done.
    – Ramhound
    Jun 13, 2014 at 10:27
  • If you deleted the encrypted partition then nothing can be done. The unencrypted partition can be restored using the proper tools.
    – Ramhound
    Jun 13, 2014 at 10:48
  • From what I understand, unless the partition is overwritten with data, or is formatted, it should be possible to recover the encrypted partition. Thank you for the response!
    – KaveElite
    Jun 13, 2014 at 11:09
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    How about you supply what you read exactly? You are the one who wants to understand something, I already understand, I don't have to research the subject.
    – Ramhound
    Jun 13, 2014 at 11:23
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    The partition is cleaned... which means it is unallocated. All the data is still on the hard drive. Inside of disk management, the 100 GB partition space is still there. It has not been modified at all. Nothing has been written over the data on the hard drive.
    – KaveElite
    Jun 14, 2014 at 1:34

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It happened to once.

I've managed to recover the HD completely using Acronis Disk Director utility that I found on HBCD 10.6).

It's also possible using TestDisk, but I haven't tried it.

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  • There are only two Acronis utilities on HBCD, and I gave another free option. What's wrong with that?!
    – EliadTech
    Jun 13, 2014 at 10:30
  • You're right. I've edited my post.
    – EliadTech
    Jun 13, 2014 at 11:05
  • Could you include some instruction for me to proceed? I've never encountered a situation like this before.
    – KaveElite
    Jun 13, 2014 at 11:15
  • @KaveElite - EliadTech's answer is incomplete. Acronis Disk Director nor TestDisk will be unable to recover the encrypted partition.
    – Ramhound
    Jun 13, 2014 at 11:24
  • How are you so sure of this? Have you encountered this situation before? It seems you're shooting down everyone's attempt instead of providing a solution.
    – KaveElite
    Jun 13, 2014 at 11:27

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