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YEP! It finished installing windows updates then booted right up! I wonder if the windows update had anything to do with the partition table/boot sector getting corrupted? I may never know!

Anyway, thanks for the help guys and thanks for the program, CG Security!!

I think i got it! After restoring the boot sector i ran chkdsk /f and it's viewable now! Now i'll try to boot from it

Thanks for the help!

I get this when i go to Rebuild BS

In that screenshot, my data is in the partition on the bottom. The one that is highlighted.

Thank you for the suggestion, will try this afternoon after work.

Need any other screen shots or info?

Here's the shot of the analyze screen. It shows the partition with my files on it set as primary boot. Windows still tells me it needs to be formatted,

The partition with my data is the highlighted one in the second picture. I ran a deep search last night and checked it this morning. It seemed to find the same exact 2 partitions that are shown in the second picture.

From what i can tell, the top partition in the second screen is set as the active ...

I can see the partition i want to recover. I've successfully used TestDisk to recover files from it. This is my old laptop hdd that i placed into an external drive case hooked up via USB (if that matters). I will post screenshots in case someone can tell me what's going on. I appreciate any help ...