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by califauna
23 Feb 2024, 08:21
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover after changed partition table type
Replies: 6
Views: 68496

Re: Recover after changed partition table type

No need to reply to this thread now. I've done a full search of the raw data of the hard drive looking for hex strings that would be in the files I'm looking for.
by califauna
22 Feb 2024, 04:58
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover after changed partition table type
Replies: 6
Views: 68496

Re: Recover after changed partition table type

The drive used to be type 'MBR'. I changed it to 'GPT' when I reinstalled windows on the drive, following the instructions in the Windows installer.

I can't remember what all the partitions were on the disk before I reinstalled windows. There was at least one partition though, which was bootable ...
by califauna
20 Feb 2024, 21:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover after changed partition table type
Replies: 6
Views: 68496

Re: Recover after changed partition table type

Sure, here's a better explanation.

Up to 2 days ago I was using Windows 10 on my laptop in Legacy BIOS mode. I decided to make a change to UEFI as my laptop supports it, and Windows was getting funky so time for a fresh install anyway.

So I used a pendrive to install windows on the same drive. I ...
by califauna
20 Feb 2024, 16:31
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Recover after changed partition table type
Replies: 6
Views: 68496

Recover after changed partition table type

Hi,

I have just reinstalled Windows on a drive, changing the partition table type from MBR to GPT so I could use Windows in UEFI mode instead of legacy BIOS. Now I need to recover the old partition to try and boot it or at least try and recover a chrome install which I have lost the profile data ...
by califauna
04 Feb 2015, 16:46
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: No partitions found on 64 GB card
Replies: 3
Views: 2277

Re: No partitions found on 64 GB card

bump. Still need help with this!
by califauna
30 Jan 2015, 12:47
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: No partitions found on 64 GB card
Replies: 3
Views: 2277

Re: No partitions found on 64 GB card

OK . Here's the partition search first, and then the beginning of the boot sector rebuild and dump. I will post the entire log for that when its finished (Im running it for the second time and its currently about 30% complete and has been running for about 12 hours ...
by califauna
29 Jan 2015, 18:13
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: No partitions found on 64 GB card
Replies: 3
Views: 2277

No partitions found on 64 GB card

HI All,

When my Samsung s2 motherboard crashed recently it seems to have completely corrupted the 64 GB micro SD card inside.

Im trying to get access to the card as before if possible, with the folder structure intact, rather than go straight to recovery with Photorec, as the organisation of the ...