How to Recover Deleted NTFS Partition in Windows 11/10

The NTFS (short for New Technology File System) partition is widely used to store your personal files, folders, documents, videos owing to its better overall performance.

However, sometimes, you may accidentally delete this partition or the partition gets lost owing to improper operation, virus attack, power failure, bad sectors, and more. And the deleted partition will be marked as unallocated space in the Disk Management or similar tools.

Can you recover deleted NTFS partition in Windows 11/10?

Sometimes, your partition will become unallocated space. That means your data is erased from this partition and you cannot access it unless your format it again.Are you supposed to reformat this partition for reuse? The answer is no. Your data on the partition does not go forever and it’s still there.

Can I recover deleted NTFS partition? Of course, partition recovery software - AOMEI Partition Assistant, can recover data from formatted drives, and RAW/NTFS partitions, and recover deleted or lost NTFS partitions under Windows.

You can restore NTFS partition before reformatting this partition, adding new items to this partition, rebuilding its partition table. 

How to recover deleted NTFS partition in Windows 11/10/8/7?

Deleted NTFS partition recovery is the first thing you should do when your partition suddenly becomes unallocated space. After that, you can do whatever you like.

To recover deleted partition in Windows 10/11 free, you need proper NTFS partition recovery software. This part will introduce 3 ways to perform NTFS partition recovery.

Method 1. Recover Deleted NTFS Partition Without losing Data

AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional is powerful and full-featured partition recovery software, which can recover deleted NTFS partitions without any hassle. At the same time, you can recover the accidentally deleted boot partition in Windows 10. And it supports all kinds of Windows operating system, including Windows XP/7/8/10/11. Thus, no matter what operating system you use, you can recover the partition through this software.

Download the tool for free and recover files from formatted, deleted, corrupted or lost NTFS partitions. The tool will automatically identify the disk or device with the missing partition for you:

1. Download NTFS recovery software AOMEI Partition Assistant and run it.

2. Click Recover on the top pane, and then select Partition Recovery from the menu.

3. Select the disk containing deleted NTFS partition and click Next.

4. Select Fast Search. This is the recommended choice. It takes less time. Select Full Search at the next time if your partition cannot be restored successfully.

5. Select the deleted partition to recover and click Proceed. For security, you can click Explore files in this selected partition and view the files in the partition to confirm.

6. Click Finish to exit this window and then check if you can access your partition and data.

Besides partition recovery, AOMEI Partition Assistant can do more things, such as, extend system partition, fix raw hard drive to NTFS, convert GPT to MBR without losing data using command prompt, and so on.

If you want to recover deleted NTFS partition in Windows Server 2025/2022/2019/2016/2012, you are supposed to upgrade to AOMEI Partition Assistant Server.

Method 2. Recover Deleted NTFS Partition using CMD

Partitions with missing drive numbers will also not be displayed. If the NTFS volume label is missing, Windows may not be able to find your data. You can run CMD commands to solve the problem. Try to assign a drive letter to the NTFS drive and recover the lost partition.

1. Open the Run window, type cmd and right-click and select "Run as administrator".

2. Type diskpart in the new window and press Enter.

3. Type list disk and press Enter.

4. Type select disk x. Replace x with your disk number.

5. Type list volume and press Enter.

6. type select volume x. Replace x with the disk volume number.

7. type assign letter = m. If a drive letter has been assigned, replace m with any available drive letter. Press Enter.

Exit this window and see if you can access and recover the NTFS partition.

Method 3. Fix Corrupted NTFS Partition 

After recovering data from a damaged, lost or deleted NTFS partition, you can continue to use AOMEI Partition Assistant to repair the file system and fix the damaged partition. The tool is a perfect alternative to CHKDSK and can easily locate corrupted files and repair it.

Step 1. Right-click on the recovered NTFS partition, select "Advanced" and then "Check Partition".

Step 2. You will see three checking options. Select the first one and click OK.

Step 3. Wait for the process to complete. Click OK when done.

The corrupted file system can be repaired in this way so that you can see the hidden files again from File Explorer.

Tip: If your system partition is corrupted, use a Windows installation disk or a bootable USB with a copy of Windows to recreate the system partition file. AOMEI Partition Assistant provides the features of bootable USB and Repair MBR to repair the partition table without losing data. Download AOMEI Partition Assistant and enjoy your new journey.

Wrapping things up

If you do not add new items to this partition, reformat this partition, rebuild its partition table or use it for any purpose before recovery, you can recover deleted NTFS partition and data.

For deleted NTFS partition recovery, proper software is needed. As you can see from above, AOMEI Partition Assistant is a great choice. With it, all things become very easy. You just need to follow the instructions on the above and you can recover your partition in Windows 10/8/7/XP without extra effort.

Besides recovery, AOMEI Partition Assistant offer you others useful features, such as, move partition to end of disk, make bootable media, clone Windows to USB drive, etc.