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It seems to be working, but transferring my old accounts may be more complicated...

I'm back, and I'm going to try advanced -> Boot -> List -> copy files

Don't forget to change sector size to 512...

Advanced: doesn't show boot option, but shows type option

Type: EFI and NTFS...

Boot: both sectors are bad, maybe I should do RebuildBS but I don't have any good drives to backup to ...

...another write error, and nothing's changed. I'm somehow in a worse situation than when I had the previous E: and F: drives...

One thing I noticed was that the analyse always paused a bit at cylinder 13 before give me the analyse messages.

Should I just give up and use PhotoRec?

what if I try dev/sdb?

...the E: drive only contains the bad recovery partition

I need help

trying GPT write again...

augh, the E: drive is different this time it's 800MB, and there is no F: drive

I safely exited testdisk, let's see what I can do

I wonder what I should do about the bad GPT signature...

Same raw partition again, hmm...

What if I try the GPT write with sector size 512 again? and if the inaccessible E: and F: drives come up again I try intel on E: with the adjusted sector size?

aaaaaaggggggh, the disk now has only one RAW partition and I can't access it

Let's see what happens if I set all the partitions to primary, then restart

Testdisk exited safely Disk Manager still says RAW, so I'll try restarting my computer this time

I set the EFI Partition to boot and the recovery partition to Primary

A brief online search suggests that the recovery partition is primary in the first place

on another note, setting the recovery to logical and the main partition to primary is bad infastructure

Let's see how it writes...