Undeleting a partition
I recently made the mistake of accidentally deleting the wrong partition in the Windows disk management feature. This tool allowed me to scan/recover the partition without incident: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
They have binaries for almost every operating system available and it works great if you haven't touched the disk after you deleted the partion. Phew...
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