Recovery of the deleted partition is the process by which the investigator evaluates and extracts the deleted partitions.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Not applicable
• D. Partitions are never recovered

Answer: (A)

Recovery of a deleted partition involves scanning the storage device to locate a partition that was defined but whose entry has been removed, reconstructing its partition boundaries, and extracting the data it contains for analysis. In forensics, this means evaluating the disk for deleted partition entries, rebuilding the partition table (MBR/GPT) if needed, and imaging or mounting the recovered partition to access files without altering evidence. The data in the deleted partition’s sectors remains until it’s overwritten, so if it hasn’t been overwritten, it can be recovered. That’s why this statement is true. The other options are not correct because deleted partitions can be recoverable in many cases, and saying they are never recoverable or that the topic doesn’t apply isn’t accurate.