Windows 10: Advice on data recovery

I have a 2T HD that has lots of non-critical data, but still data I'd like to retrieve. What happened is I was trying to create a dual boot system using 100 gigs for booting and the rest for storage.

I successfully created these 2 partitions for the HD and then used Acronis to restore a boot partition. The problem is Acronis likes to have a very small partition area called "system reserved" and then a 2nd partition for the OS.

So when it restored it used my 100 gigs for the system reserved and used the 1900 gigs for the OS. The OS is very small only 20 gigs, so I know most of the data is still there just hidden.

Many years ago when I needed to recover data, I use R-Studio for my XP computer and it did a good job, but I'm sure it won't work for this big HD. So what do any of you recommend?

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lost data and photo's

Thanks for your advice, I will have a look at data recovery companies.

Stuart

 

Changing of Drive partition letter in windows 10

my 500GB harddisk as shown in the Disk Management has the following partitions:

Windows ( C: ) = NTFS, Healthy, boot, page file, Primary Partition, 194,42 GB

Data ( E: ) = NTFS, Healthy, Primary Partition, 251.54 GB

Recovery ( D: ) = NFTS, Healthy OEM Partition, 18.43 GB

Recovery ( D: ) =Healthy, OEM Partition, 18.43 GB

No volume = Healthy, Recovery Partition, 400 MB

No volume = Healthy, EFI System Partition, 260 MB

No volume = Healthy, Recovery Partition, 900 MB

i wish to change Recovery Drive letter D to say E and the Data drive letter E to D, but when I clip on both The Recovery drive D, no other menu come up for changing the drive letter and the word Help coming out.

Please give advice as how to change the Recovery Drive letter D to other drive letter or to E

Your early advice is greatly appreciated.

thank you

 

I use Recuva for recovering files
Recuva: Free Data Recovery tool - Piriform

 

Thanks, I tried it and for the deep scan, it said that it couldn't keep the original file names for the restored files, so I decided to go with EaseUs. after I saw it found my files, It cost $70 to restore them. It did a perfect job. Didn't lose anything. Still thanks for your opinion.