Undo the CLEAN command on the portable hdd : DISKPART
testdisk might be able to fix that.
- Download System Rescue CD (live cd) and burn it to a disk or just download testdisk
- run testdisk
- choose to create a log file
- choose the disk that you ran clean on
- choose intel
- choose analyze
- choose quick search
- confirm to preceed
- testdisk should find the deleted partition
- confirm to save the partition table.
- check for files.
If there's data on the disk that needs to be recovered, don't do this!
You'll need to recreate a partition and format it. Diskpart is capable of doing both:
select disk 1
or whatever number refers to your hard drive, uselist disk
to find out.create partition primary
will create one large partition. Usehelp create partition primary
for more options.select partition 1
format quick
to create the file system. Once again, checkhelp format
for more options.