Search found 9 matches

by sdjiricek
14 Feb 2018, 11:46
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Any recovery options for Bad boot sector and backup?
Replies: 0
Views: 1401

Any recovery options for Bad boot sector and backup?

ntfs_boot_sector
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 7721 254 63 124053867
filesystem size 4705734185631875073 15087055580947150938
sectors_per_cluster 8 196
mft_lcn 538985805 2639431764
mftmirr_lcn 540160340 3887858461
clusters_per_mft_record -114 48
clusters_per_index_record 123 -106
Boot sector
Status: Bad ...
by sdjiricek
02 Feb 2018, 08:48
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12

cgrenier wrote: 01 Feb 2018, 07:00 NTFS is number 7.
Any advice based on the Log and Dumpfile I posted?
by sdjiricek
01 Feb 2018, 08:35
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12

During RebuildBS the program just shut down. It looks like it generated a stackdump file. I'm trying to attatch the 2 files but don't seem to be able to.


Here's the stackdump


Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=0043E5A6
eax=00000000 ebx=20104718 ecx=0023ED66 edx=CA11BE9C esi=0037F62A ...
by sdjiricek
01 Feb 2018, 06:57
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12


Run TestDisk, Advanced, select the partition, Type, force it to NTFS, Boot, RebuildBS, List.
If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm Quit and restart your computer.
If it doesn't work, please post the testdisk.log file content.



Which one of these Do I choose. I don't see NTFS as a ...
by sdjiricek
20 Jan 2018, 10:53
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12


Run TestDisk, Advanced, select the partition, Type, force it to NTFS, Boot, RebuildBS, List.
If you can see your files, choose Write, confirm Quit and restart your computer.
If it doesn't work, please post the testdisk.log file content.


I don't see NTFS as an option to force the FAT12 to NTFS ...
by sdjiricek
19 Jan 2018, 10:16
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12

I don't see NTFS as an option to force the FAT12 to NTFS. The image shows the 3 file systems available.

Image
by sdjiricek
19 Jan 2018, 10:01
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12

I don't seem to be able to post the JPG?
by sdjiricek
19 Jan 2018, 09:57
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Re: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12

So I ran Photorec because I didn't want to compromise the partition any further by trying to force it to NTFS from the FAT12 file system and it pulled up this (see Photo). All jumbled text and HTML files. What exactly am I looking at and why don't you think it recovered any files/photos/executables ...
by sdjiricek
18 Jan 2018, 06:34
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12
Replies: 10
Views: 25039

Accidental conversion from NTFS to FAT12

Well I'm not sure exactly how this happened but the primary partition was accidentally converted to FAT12 from NTFS while I was cleaning the keyboard. The rest of the partition, however stayed as NTFS. It became unbootable as the operating system was on the primary (C) partition. I bought a second ...