I had a 500GB drive with 4 primary partitions. First I took one small 15GB partition and changed it to logical. I did that so I could make the first partition on the drive a primary one, so that W7 could boot from it. I split the 233GB partition into 2: 1. W7 with a size of 33GB, set as active, and then, in the remaining 200GB of space, a logical partition.
And right when I created that logical one, the last 190GB partition disappeared. It showed up as “Free space“. First I tried SysInternals Partition Recovery, but it didn’t see the partition, and scanning the whole 500GB drive would have taken hours. Then I tried another small program, freeware, just a few MB in size, Smart PartitionRecovery, but it didn’t see the partition either.
So I tried one more program, again freeware, and this time even without adware: EASEUS Partition Recovery. It saw the partition immediately and after a scan of just a few minutes it restored it right away. So the conclusion: sometimes free programs can do more than ones costing 2,500 CZK 🙂