750 gb gpt drive initialized
Posted: 28 Oct 2013, 13:09
Asus laptop with Windows 7 Home Prem.
Drive got infected with FBI, unable to boot to windows PE or safe mode, backed up essential data, but the drive was setup as GPT instead of MBR.
In order to view the contents and backup I put the drive in my drop in external enclosure and plugged it into my Windows 7 desktop. This caused Win 7 on the desktop to require initialization, which I did.
After this the system wanted to format, which I DID NOT.
I then put the system in my xp box and ran get data back and was able to recover the documents and such that I had on the drive.
Then I ran the test disk after some searching around for a solution in google. I managed to find the partitions, and write them back, but when i put the disk in the laptop and try to boot it tells me that Windows failed to start and to insert my system disk.
I tried inserting a Win 7 Home Premium DVD w/SP1, but it tells me the O/S doesn't match.
Not sure where to proceed from here or if you can help me, but I hate to reload the full system, was hoping to run recovery because the laptop came with software that i don't have discs for to reinstall.
Not sure what other information would be helpful but don't want to fill this post with something that's not useful to you, so just tell me what you need.
Thank you in advance.
Drive got infected with FBI, unable to boot to windows PE or safe mode, backed up essential data, but the drive was setup as GPT instead of MBR.
In order to view the contents and backup I put the drive in my drop in external enclosure and plugged it into my Windows 7 desktop. This caused Win 7 on the desktop to require initialization, which I did.
After this the system wanted to format, which I DID NOT.
I then put the system in my xp box and ran get data back and was able to recover the documents and such that I had on the drive.
Then I ran the test disk after some searching around for a solution in google. I managed to find the partitions, and write them back, but when i put the disk in the laptop and try to boot it tells me that Windows failed to start and to insert my system disk.
I tried inserting a Win 7 Home Premium DVD w/SP1, but it tells me the O/S doesn't match.
Not sure where to proceed from here or if you can help me, but I hate to reload the full system, was hoping to run recovery because the laptop came with software that i don't have discs for to reinstall.
Not sure what other information would be helpful but don't want to fill this post with something that's not useful to you, so just tell me what you need.
Thank you in advance.