Help Needed: recover lost partition
Posted: 04 Jan 2016, 00:52
Hi, I have a desktop which I installed two systems: Windows Vista and Ubunto (boot managed by ubunto)
. In Windows it has 3 partitions: 400G for system, and 2 800G for storing.
Last couple days, the windows system start to crash, extremely slow, and
pretty much not usable. so I tried to reinstall a Windows 7 ... however
installation disk keep complain about the partition and cannot install to
it. (even it finds all the 3 partitions just fine, but just cannot install to it)
I searched online and someone suggest to use DISKPART (during
installation) to select that disk, then do clean, convert mbr, create
partition primary, active and format quick fs=ntfs. So, I select that 400G disk and did it...
Now seems i totally lost the other two
partitions, and they combined to a 2TB disk. W7 installation disk still
cannot install to it.I am afraid i lost all my files in the 2 800GB
disks.
Any suggestions? can I still recover the two disks and the files? I am running TestDisk now
in Ubuntu for deeper dive on the now 2TB NTFS drive and will see whether it can find anything.
Also why W7 installation disk keep cannot install to those partitions?
thanks a lot for any help or suggestion you can provide here!
. In Windows it has 3 partitions: 400G for system, and 2 800G for storing.
Last couple days, the windows system start to crash, extremely slow, and
pretty much not usable. so I tried to reinstall a Windows 7 ... however
installation disk keep complain about the partition and cannot install to
it. (even it finds all the 3 partitions just fine, but just cannot install to it)
I searched online and someone suggest to use DISKPART (during
installation) to select that disk, then do clean, convert mbr, create
partition primary, active and format quick fs=ntfs. So, I select that 400G disk and did it...
Now seems i totally lost the other two
partitions, and they combined to a 2TB disk. W7 installation disk still
cannot install to it.I am afraid i lost all my files in the 2 800GB
disks.
Any suggestions? can I still recover the two disks and the files? I am running TestDisk now
in Ubuntu for deeper dive on the now 2TB NTFS drive and will see whether it can find anything.
Also why W7 installation disk keep cannot install to those partitions?
thanks a lot for any help or suggestion you can provide here!