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by Ajayp007
22 May 2012, 20:35
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows 7 Partition Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4864

Re: Windows 7 Partition Recovery

Thanks Fiona.

After I wrote my last post, running Windows 7 repair got me back into the system.
Question about the space between partitions, the deepscan fixed this and correctly sorted out the numbers, which is why it then let me see all of my data.

But the funny thing was that it booted up the ...
by Ajayp007
21 May 2012, 21:12
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows 7 Partition Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4864

Re: Windows 7 Partition Recovery (SOLVED)

I looked into my boot partition and found some backups of the old mbr in a *.img format which were taken orginally prior to my loss of data partition, I use ubuntu to restore this mbr.img, which made my filessystem look slightl different, so I think the cylinder, heads and sectors got modifed.

I ...
by Ajayp007
20 May 2012, 19:46
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows 7 Partition Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4864

Re: Windows 7 Partition Recovery

Can you please advise, what to try out?

I have another 1tb disk that I am now going to stick into the 2nd bay of the laptop which I will use to copy the old Windows 7 NTFs partition over. Hopefully this will provide me with some thing i can work with. I will then install Windows 7 again to get me ...
by Ajayp007
20 May 2012, 13:13
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows 7 Partition Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4864

Re: Windows 7 Partition Recovery

I don't know how to attach my screenshots so pasting info from Testdisk.log.

Mon May 21 08:03:17 2012
Command line: TestDisk

NTFS signature is missing.
NTFS signature is missing.
NTFS signature is missing.
NTFS signature is missing.
TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Christophe GRENIER ...
by Ajayp007
20 May 2012, 11:38
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Windows 7 Partition Recovery
Replies: 6
Views: 4864

Windows 7 Partition Recovery

Hi,

I am a newbie to this forum. :ugeek: I am hoping you can help me with this issue I have.
I am using a Dell XPS 17 "Windows 7" laptop which has a 500gb HDD. This had a C: and D: drive.
I installed some partition software, after a reboot it came up with some errors such as BOOT MBR missing.
I ...