Long story short, when using a program on my Win7 PC SSD to increase the size of my System Reserved partition by merging it with 200Mb of unallocated space, it seems to have effected the main C: partition.. (yes this probably wasn't the smatest idea... but live and learn right? )
Basically it wouldn't boot and at first I thought just the boot files were buggered, but after Win7 repair disk failed, I checked the filestructure and found that 90% of my data was simply gone! Folders like Program Files and Users were there, but most of their data had just dissapeared..but not all of it..
So that lead me to think that perhaps my MFT had became a little messed up and hopefully my files actually were still there. Windows checkdisk couldn't find any issues when I connected the SSD via a SATA-USB adapter to my laptop so I've been trying TestDisk.
First interesting point, when selecting the partition table type, TestDisk notes "Hint: None partition table type has been detected". And sure enough, if I select "None" and "Analyse" I can see a single NTFS partition with only 10% of my files in existance. However if I select "Intel" and "Analyse" I get the following report:
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Current partition structure:
1 * Sys=4F 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
Bad relative sector.
2 * Sys=73 119380 132 62 153270 41 37 544437093
Bad relative sector.
3 * Sys=2B 113201 29 24 147074 114 59 544175136
Bad relative sector.
4 * SpeedStor 177063 118 26 177066 225 63 54974
Bad relative sector.
Only one partition must be bootable
Space conflict between the following two partitions
3 * Sys=2B 113201 29 24 147074 114 59 544175136
2 * Sys=73 119380 132 62 153270 41 37 544437093
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 * Sys=73 119380 132 62 153270 41 37 544437093
1 * Sys=4F 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
Space conflict between the following two partitions
1 * Sys=4F 120527 49 53 234813 237 34 1836016416
4 * SpeedStor 177063 118 26 177066 225 63 54974
Basically I'm a little stumped as to where to go from here, as my limited IT knowledge has ran out at this point and I'm deathly affraid of losing my data if it's still there!
Cheers,
Jett