Windows 10: Stupidly Deleted Hard Drive Partition

Ok, so I stupidly Deleted a 3tb hard drive which has 2 1.5tb partitions. I have done a bit of searching and a large majority only let you recover like 1gb of data being you need to buy, (minitool and lazesoft recovery suite). A fair few people recommend testdisk/Photorec or Recuva.

I have tried Photorec (as it has a gui) and it seems to finding the files/folders on the deleted partition (its still searching 3hrs and going) but from what has been found so far the directory structure doesnt seem to be intact and the file names are all number and letters, once the search has finally finished is the directory structure and files/folder names correctly restored as they were or will they always been just randomly generated names??.

This could be a problem seeings as its a 3TB drive with lots of files so im never going to know whats what if the file names are not what they used to be??.

Have also tried Recuva (which is another program a lot swear by) but I can't seem to select the drive as at the moment the whole drive is in a 'unallocated' state I didn't want to set the drive up as a 'new simple drive' in the fear of overwriting info on the drive, should I be setting the drive up or leaving it unallocated?, as Recuva doesn't appear to be able to see the drive as I'm guess it's in a unallocated state!??

Lazesoft and Minitool seem to work perfectly and have correct file names and directory structures but have to pay, before I give up on testdisk/Photorec and Recuva can anyone give any assistance that may help!?

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I was putting together my mothers new PC (mainly my old components) and decided that her hardrives were a mess and that I was going to merge the partitions.

On one the drives, I deleted and formatted partition B, and tried to merge it with partition A, simply by extending partition A to encompass the remaining capacity on the physical drive. Much to my horror however, the end result was that the whole of the physical drive was rendered into 500GB of 'Unallocated Space'.

There was lots of very important files on that hard-drive and losing them would be totally out of the question.

Does anyone know how to go about recovering a deleted partition?