Recovering deleted partitions in Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core

I was expanding one of my drive (Drive A) partitions to use space available on another drive (Drive B) and then I wanted to delete the extension so I clicked on the second drive (Drive B) and deleted that partition. What I didn't realize is that
would delete the entire partition on Drive A. Now that I have screwed up I desperately need to recover the partition. I ran the free tool TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) but it did not see the deleted partition. Can someone
point me in the right direction for recovering the partition and or data?

Well I was able to fully recover the deleted partion and restore the Hyper-V VM's and figured I would share the steps I took to recover.
Deleted Partition Recovery
Do not reboot the machine because the MBR will be commited permanately.
Use a partition recover tool (I used Active@ partition recovery) to recover the
deleted partion.
Restore the MBR which should be the backup MBR at this point (not 100% sure on
this).
If you did reboot and you cannot restore the MBR then you may have to backup the
files from the deleted partition and recreate the partition manually. This was the case for me.
Use a file reovery tool (I used Active@ File Recovery) to backup the deleted
files.
Recreate the Partition manually and restore from the backup.
Hyper-V Virtual HardDisk Restore
Restore the .VHD and .AVHD from the backups.
Because you restored from backup the ACL (Access Control List) entries will be
wiped and you will have to remove the hard drives from the virtual machine and reattach them. Re-attaching the .VHD will recreate the appropriate ACL entries. Worst case scenario you will have to recreate the VM and attach the hard drive.
Remove the Virtual Hard Drive from the Virtual machine via Hyper-V Manager.
If there are Snapshot files you must first merge them back into the main .VHD
Change the extension of the most recent .AVHD to .VHD.
From Hyper-V Manager select Edit Disk and browse to the newly renamed Snapshot
and use the Merge option to merge it with its parent disk. The merge wizard will automatically select the appropriate parent to merge with. Take a note of this name because you will have to repeat the process on this file. In Hyper-V Versions
prior to 2008 R2 you may have to manually select the parent, in this case you will need to figure it out yourself but fortuanately you can sort by date and go from latest to oldest in order.
Repeat the above process with each successive Snapshot until you have merged with
the main .VHD for the VM.
Reattach the .VHD file which will restore the Hyper-V ACL entries.
Start the VM.
If you get the following error when logging in to the VM “The trust relationship
between the primary domain and the trusted domain failed.” You will need to remove the machine from the domain and readd it to the domain via the local administrator account.

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