I accidentily deleted a partition on a drive using the Disk Management utility in Windows 7 right now. Of course there is no backup, so I hope I'm able to recover the data. The disk was a 1 TB drive ...

What the heck is a dynamic disk partition? Is this related to FAT32 or NTFS, or is it really a C or D drive partition thing? Is there some sort of software partition going on (not through FDISK?).

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