How to recover deleted or lost EXT2/EXT3 partition?

What is EXT2/EXT3?

The EXT2 or second extended file system is a file system for the Linux kernel. It is initially designed as a replacement for the extended file system. It is fast enough that it is used as the benchmarking standard. Its main drawback is that it is not a journaling file system. Its successor, EXT3, is a journal file system and is almost completely compatible with EXT2.

The EXT3 or third extended file system is a journal file system that is coming into increasing use among users of the Linux operating system. It is the default file system for the Red Hat, Fedora and Debian Linux distributions. Why to migrate from EXT2 to EXT3? Four main reasons: availability, data integrity, speed, and easy transition.

Why to recover deleted or lost EXT2/EXT3 partition?

When you could not see partition you need in Windows Disk Management, it might be lost and the data on it could not be accessed. Actually, the partition was not really lost, even if partition table was destroyed by virus or deleted accidentally. Partition recovery software can easily recover deleted or lost partition.

EaseUS Partition Recovery is a free partition recovery software for hard disk to recover deleted or lost FAT12/16/32, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3 partition under Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008 and Windows 7.

How to recover deleted or lost EXT2/EXT3 partition with free partition recovery software?

1. Run EaseUS Partition Recovery, and then you will see the following window. Click "Next" to continue.

2. Please choose a disk where you want to recover lost partitions and click "Next" to continue.

Tips: Please try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover data from deleted or lost partitions on dynamic disk or GPT disk.

3. Choose a specified area to search for the lost partitions and click "Next" to continue.

4. Please choose a search method to start partition recovery. (There are two search methods: Fast and Complete.)

5. EaseUS Partition Recovery starts searching the deleted or lost partitions.

6. After the search is completed, choose the deleted or lost partitions to recover.

At this step, if EaseUS Partition Recovery cannot find your deleted or lost partitions with Fast search method. You will see the following window. Please choose "Yes" to start Complete search method.

If EaseUS Partition Recovery cannot find your deleted or lost partitions by Complete search method, please try EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard to recover data from deleted or lost partition.

7. Click "Proceed" to execute the operations.

8. After the execution is completed, you will see the Congratulations window.

Besides recovering EXT2/EXT3 partitions, EaseUS Partition Recovery can also recover deleted or lost FAT12/16/32 and NTFS partitions.

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