Hello everybody!
Today you will see how to recover data lost after cleaning a hard disk, USB stick or a
memory card with the command “clean” in Diskpart.
Here we go.
Cleaning a hard disk and its partitions with the Diskpart tool and the command “Clean”
is one of the ways to recover a memory card, a USB stick or a hard disk if they don’t
work properly, upset you with failures or show the wrong memory size.
This command is also used to unlock a write-protected USB drive, memory card or hard disk in Windows
10, 8 or 7.
Use the command Clean in Diskpart to remove partitions which cannot be deleted with other
integrated tools such as Disk Management.
This command starts the process which will completely remove the disk partition table
so that you can create it from the scratch.
Yet sometimes things may go wrong.
For example, you can select the wrong disk or partition and delete something you wanted
to keep.
As long as you are watching this video, you probably know how to use the Clean command
in the Diskpart tool.
However, I will demonstrate the process again, for clarity and in order to maintain the experimental
integrity.
As a result, you will get a clean disk without any file system.
Quite a challenge, right?
Talking of challenges, only a few data recovery apps can restore the information lost this
way.
So how can we restore data lost after applying the Diskpart / Clean command?
Let’s see what to do if you cleaned the disk with the command Clean, or tried to use
it to recover a disk, USB stick or memory card which are blocked or cannot be formatted.
We are going to use Hetman Partition Recovery to get the lost files back, and soon you will
see why we’re using this particular utility.
• Start the program, and you will see all disks connected to this computer.
• The disk we have cleaned is a 16 GB USB drive.
It could be any other memory device - the type doesn’t matter.
• Find it among other drives detected by the program and try analyzing it.
• Select Fast scan and here is what you get.
The program cannot analyze the USB drive because it lacks a file system.
This is exactly what you are going to face when you use most data recovery tools trying
to analyze a disk after the Clean command.
• In order to recover data, you need to analyze the USB drive as a physical device
rather than its file system.
As a result, the program will try to detect any file systems that previously existed in
this USB drive, and the data that it used to store.
• To do it, select the USB drive from the Physical Disks list.
• Scan it using Full Analysis.
The time required to scan your drive depends on its size.
Wait until the analysis is complete.
• As a result, here’s what you see.
The program detected several partitions in the cleaned USB drive.
These are partitions and file systems that used to exist there.
For some of them, you can even see the names.
• Find the lost partition you need.
Click on it.
• In fact, that’s all.
All the files lost after cleaning the drive with the Clean command are now displayed.
The ones with the red cross next to them are the files which had been already removed at
the time of cleaning the drive.
• Find the files you need to recover.
• You can use the preview window to see their contents.
• Drag them to the recovery list and click the Recovery button.
• Choose the method and folder for recovery.
• All files have been recovered.
To make the cleaned disk operable again, use Disk Management to create a simple volume
and format it.
However, I don’t recommend doing it before you recover data from the cleaned disk.
The matter is that another round of formatting may reduce the quality and quantity of the
data that can be recovered.
That is all for now.
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Thank you for watching.
Good luck.