Partitions lost after trying a Windows 7 recovery
Posted: 18 Nov 2015, 13:30
Greetings,
I own a ASUS laptop wit a 750Gb Hitachi SATA drive, split into 2 partitions.
Some days ago I had problems with Windows 7 OEM pre-installed and I decided to reinstall it using the ASUS recovery partition for Windows 7.
Unfortunately something went wrong and the recovery utility didn't succeed. It ended with a big ERROR screen and I had no way to get the procedure completed.
Unfortunately, this procedure runs diskpart.exe at the beginning, since it tries to restore the original Windows from the hidden partition.
I think this may have corrupted the MBR, since I'm not able to see any data from my drive, and also TestDisk doesn't see the whole disk (2 partitions).
Then I removed the drive from the laptop, put it into a USB case and finally I tried to get it recognized as an extenral USB drive from another laptop.
Here's the TestDisk output, where Drive C: is the main drive of the current laptop and /dev/sda the only partition I see now in the fail drive: My question is: can somebody suggest me some steps to recover the partitions, or at least to recover the files?
Many thanks in advance,
Gischio
I own a ASUS laptop wit a 750Gb Hitachi SATA drive, split into 2 partitions.
Some days ago I had problems with Windows 7 OEM pre-installed and I decided to reinstall it using the ASUS recovery partition for Windows 7.
Unfortunately something went wrong and the recovery utility didn't succeed. It ended with a big ERROR screen and I had no way to get the procedure completed.
Unfortunately, this procedure runs diskpart.exe at the beginning, since it tries to restore the original Windows from the hidden partition.
I think this may have corrupted the MBR, since I'm not able to see any data from my drive, and also TestDisk doesn't see the whole disk (2 partitions).
Then I removed the drive from the laptop, put it into a USB case and finally I tried to get it recognized as an extenral USB drive from another laptop.
Here's the TestDisk output, where Drive C: is the main drive of the current laptop and /dev/sda the only partition I see now in the fail drive: My question is: can somebody suggest me some steps to recover the partitions, or at least to recover the files?
Many thanks in advance,
Gischio