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by anilswipe
10 Apr 2021, 15:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Thank you for the wonderful analogy, recuperation. I got the point.

Now I will do one thing. First I will extract the files with Photorec, before they get destroyed too. Then I will try to recover the partitions.

I will come back after that.

Thank you and best regards.
Anil
by anilswipe
08 Apr 2021, 13:25
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Thanks recuperation,

The message in your last screenshot shows you that the NTFS partition is not accessible (anymore) .... You never write to a drive with data to recover.....
You must have done something to that Linux partition and it won't become the NTFS that is located before even if you ...
by anilswipe
08 Apr 2021, 05:16
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Thank you, recuperation for the guidance.

Unfortunately your second try to recover the NTFS partition didn't show it anymore. That seems as if its boot sector has been deleted.

Yes you are right, that is what had happened. Testdisk said so.

Since the last post, while I was working with Testdisk ...
by anilswipe
06 Apr 2021, 23:44
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Thanks recuperation,

Which partition did you successfully recover before messing your things up?

I had successfully recovered the large NTFS data partition, on which all my data resides, on the 300GB HDD regarding which queried in my first original post.

Please get yourself a test environment ...
by anilswipe
06 Apr 2021, 02:02
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Thank you recuperation, for the reply.

Maybe that was only the graphical representation showing the effect of a job still to be done.

Immediately after that I had closed Gparted, rebooted and verified. I could not boot. I booted with live USB and checked in Gparted. The disk was still in ...
by anilswipe
04 Apr 2021, 19:58
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

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by anilswipe
04 Apr 2021, 19:58
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Re: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Thank you for the suggestion, recuperation.

However, I could only attatch 3 images.

Regards
Anil
by anilswipe
04 Apr 2021, 15:51
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.
Replies: 13
Views: 4547

Novice trying to recover partitions. Help needed.

Hello everybody,

I am new to the forum and a computer novice and have come to seek help to recover my lost partitions and the data inside them.

Information regarding the machine I use:
It is a 10 year old Laptop with i3 early M series processor, 3 GB RAM and 300 GB HDD. The operating system on ...