Lost HDD partition to clean command, testdisk unresponsive

Posted by Sujay Anjankar on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Sujay Anjankar
Published on 2012-11-13T06:01:05Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 10:24 UTC
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I accidentally cleaned my external HDD by the clean command in Diskpart and got a full sized heart attack after that. I did some research and I have tried a number of tools already. To name a few:

Testdisk
Recuva
Partition Find and mount
Eassos Recovery

I have even tried some other dumb sounding tools, but none of them could find the lost partition. They just show "no partition found". Testdisk shows Partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xAA55. The file recovery softwares list the files, but none of them seem to be able to restore the lost partition. I need to recover the disk as it was. Any help would be much appreciated!

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