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by Cormy1
28 Feb 2021, 19:07
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

I want to fix the partition table so that I can boot into this drive and not have to go through the hassles of re-installing from scratch again.

When I tried the online Photorec file checker, it was able to identify multiple files with correct extensions from the incorrectly defined files in the 2 ...
by Cormy1
28 Feb 2021, 03:13
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

Which partitions? You want to know about every single one?
There are 48 partitions shown after the Deep Search.
Only 4 of them create a valid partition structure.

That is:

D MS Data 2048 1026047 1024000 [ESP]
D MS Data 1288192 1926456815 1925168624
D MS Data 1926457344 1927538687 1081344
D MS ...
by Cormy1
26 Feb 2021, 18:33
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

? I have told you everything about the outcome of my search.
I posted the results of Analyze, Deep Search aswell as a pastebin link to the complete log.
You can see 7 [Boot] partitions and 12 [EFISECTOR] partitions. I checked the contents of the Boot partitions, there is only a "System Volume ...
by Cormy1
26 Feb 2021, 15:54
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

Is there no way to return to the Deep Search results after pressing Q to look at the new partition structure you're going to write?
One misclick of a Q input and you're set back hours and have to start the search all over again if you're not happy after reviewing the new partition structure.
If I ...
by Cormy1
25 Feb 2021, 06:33
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

ddrescue prints "bad-sector: 89600 B", I am only repeating.
The sector ranges all start with 0x followed by 8 digits, nothing like 89600 B.
The byte is the base unit represented by B; kilo, mega and tera are just prefixes to shorten values, they aren't needed.


Current status
ipos: 4222 kB, non ...
by Cormy1
23 Feb 2021, 23:34
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

Point 2 being acronyms and gamer talk?
Neither things which I used?
Disk cloning is what gddrescue does... 1:1 copy of a disk, this is a common term for backing up the contents of a disk.
Or can I not say B, TB and MB because those are acronyms. So I must say bytes, terabytes and megabytes ...
by Cormy1
23 Feb 2021, 17:59
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

Alright, the disk has been cloned.
In the end, it seems there was 89600 B of bad sector, 5 bad areas, out of a 1TB drive. Not even 1MB of bad sectors... 'causing all these issues =\
smartctl -H still says PASSED, despite Debian's Disk manager telling me it failed its self-test.

How should I now ...
by Cormy1
20 Feb 2021, 18:21
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Re: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

You don't believe Testdisk can repair any of the issues? Even when chkdsk has run fine?
What would be done with the disk duplicate? Recopied onto the drive after I format it to deal with the unreadable sectors?
I suppose ddrescue won't be able to read those sectors anyway so they will be lost ...
by Cormy1
20 Feb 2021, 03:18
Forum: Filesystem repair
Topic: Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop
Replies: 16
Views: 15817

Unbootable Windows Installation - Dell Laptop

Some context of things I have attempted: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/windows-boot-manager-error-0xc0000225-the-boot/8251668b-f5ef-43d1-90b2-b0d5341fdc47
When entering the Advanced menu, my only option is Image Creation for all of the volumes except 1, which is ...