I've taken the drive out and plugged it into another machine. Voila! I can see all 4 partitions, it automatically assigns a drive letter to all of them and I can browse and copy files with no issue.
I've downloaded 6.13 as I couldn't find 6 as you suggested.
Again I'm shown the below:
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Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 828 194 6 13312000 [Recovery]
2 P HPFS - NTFS 828 194 7 867 1 30 614400 [System]
3 P HPFS - NTFS 867 1 31 13928 112 8 209831936 [Windows7]
4 E extended LBA 13928 112 9 60801 80 15 753012736
5 L HPFS - NTFS 13928 144 41 60801 254 63 753021698 [Data]
Space conflict between the following two partitions
4 E extended LBA 13928 112 9 60801 80 15 753012736
5 L HPFS - NTFS 13928 144 41 60801 254 63 753021698 [Data]
Remy you say in an earlier post that P4 the Ext LBA is what holds my data. When looking at it in Disk Management on this machine I can confirm that it is showing as an Extended Partition.
So, firstly should this be Extended? Or should it be Primary. I know there can only be 4 Primary partitions on any disk so I guess when creating the 4th it creates it Extended so that more than 4 partitions can be created.
Secondly, why is the Logical partition labelled correctly and the Extended one not? I wouldn't imagine I need two partitions sat over the top of one another.
And especially that they're both different sizes and start and end in different sectors to one another, just being slightly offset.
Which partition do I need to get rid of? And how?
When I'm given the option to add and delete partitions I'm only shown the 4 I would expect to see. No 5th!
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Partition Start End Size in sectors
>* HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 828 194 6 13312000 [Recovery]
P HPFS - NTFS 828 194 7 867 1 30 614400 [System]
P HPFS - NTFS 1867 1 31 13928 112 8 209831936 [Windows7]
L HPFS - NTFS 13928 144 41 60801 47 46 753008640 [Data]
I don't want to delete the Logical partition listed. Or do I?
FYI after doing a deep search I still get the same list as the one directly above.
When pressing Enter to continue I'm shown that 5th partition again. This is what I'm being asked to write to disk. I've done it anyway on your recommendation and of course, it's still showing the 5th partition.
I'm really not sure where I go from here.
And then there is now the issue of not being able to boot from the disk.
According to the table above I'm booting from the 1st partition, this is the recovery partition. I will one day (this will probably be sooner than I hoped!) need to boot from this partition, but really I need to book from my Windows 7 Primary partition. But is the boot Partition the correct one?
I've tried writing a new copy of the MBR code using TestDisk but I'm still unable to boot it.
I'd be tempted to rebuild the entire thing if I was able to boot to the Recovery partition!!!!