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So I used a copy of CAINE (http://www.caine-live.net/), which is pretty awesome live linux version with a bunch of tools for fixing issues with booting into the main OS, and I got back to the testdisk utility. I followed the post's suggestions to set the dell utility partition to de, make it P for ...

The problem is that I can't get into the OS, I can't run testdisk. It just goes right into some sort of hardware diagnostics thing. This is the main harddrive of the computer, not the external, so currently I have no OS working on that machine.

I had an external harddrive go bad and I was attempting a to fix it with testdisk. I wasn't paying attention, was a long day of driving, and I selected my operating systems OS, windows 7. Here's the sequence of events:

Selected [No Log]
Selected Proceed
Selected Intel
Selected Analyse
Selected ...