Not sure how to proceed
Posted: 21 Jan 2015, 17:47
There are plenty of posts here that seem to apply to my situation but I'm worried about playing with something that I don't control completely.
Here is my scenario.
I have an SSD system drive
2TB HDD with 3 partitions: (approximate values)
- 1300 for Media
- 400 encrypted volume
- 100 for mirrors of cloud storage (Dropbox, Box, GDrive etc)
I had a major driver issue and had to reformat and reinstall Windows 8.1
In the process I was having all sorts of issues with the format step and the MFT/MBR was lost.
Now the 2TB disk is read just fine but as a single partition and there is some data there and it's readable but it's just a small segment of the total. FYI, I haven't been so stupid as to write to it.
First question, do I have any hope at all of recovering my partitions at all or is this a lost cause?
Second question, if the answer to the first one is yes can someone please point me to the thread that would be the advisable manner for me to proceed?
THanks.
Here is my scenario.
I have an SSD system drive
2TB HDD with 3 partitions: (approximate values)
- 1300 for Media
- 400 encrypted volume
- 100 for mirrors of cloud storage (Dropbox, Box, GDrive etc)
I had a major driver issue and had to reformat and reinstall Windows 8.1
In the process I was having all sorts of issues with the format step and the MFT/MBR was lost.
Now the 2TB disk is read just fine but as a single partition and there is some data there and it's readable but it's just a small segment of the total. FYI, I haven't been so stupid as to write to it.
First question, do I have any hope at all of recovering my partitions at all or is this a lost cause?
Second question, if the answer to the first one is yes can someone please point me to the thread that would be the advisable manner for me to proceed?
THanks.