How to recover partition formatted with Acronis Disk Director Suite?

[Michael_G]

By accident, I mistook partitions and I formatted the one with very important data. I used Acronis Disk Director Suite. I need that data back very much. Is it still possible to recover the partition and how to do it?

[Acronis Support]

Hello Michael_G,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Partition and Disk Managing Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/).

Please try to do the following (this method may help though it is difficult to recover formatted partition):
1. Launch Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0;
2. Right click on the partition you formatted and choose "Delete";
3. Choose "Wizards" -> "Recover Partitions";
4. Choose Manual mode;
5. Click on the unallocated space you got after you deleted partition;
6. Choose Complete method;
7. Wait till the search is complete and if the partition is found choose that you want to recover it.

Please note that you may get two variants of the same partition - one is the partition you wish to recover and the other is the partition you got after formatting.

Thank you.
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Ilya Toytman