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Partition and Recover Dell Hard Drive

Posted: 13 Aug 2017, 22:28
by allcheck10
My teen son's hard drive recently went down and somehow lost the boot partition. The hard drive is from a Dell 3455 all-in-one that started with windows 7 and was updated to windows 10 over a year ago.

I have run testdisk and have no idea where to go from this point. Do I do deep search? How do I decide whether a partition is Primary, * bootable, Logical, and Deleted.

Please see the photo for quick search results.

Thanks in advance for any assistance that can be offered.

Re: Partition and Recover Dell Hard Drive

Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 11:11
by cgrenier
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf contains instructions to deal with deleted partition and also with system that doesn't boot.
Read this document and identify if it's a problem of deleted/missing partition, corrupted filesystem...
Please provide all the information and copy/paste the testdisk.log file content. It will be easier to understand what you are trying to do.

Re: Partition and Recover Dell Hard Drive

Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 18:28
by allcheck10
I will track down the log file this evening. I know that with diskpart in cmd, the first partition showed as "raw" and the pc could not find a bootable drive. In general, would I fix the partitions or corrupted filesystem first?

Re: Partition and Recover Dell Hard Drive

Posted: 14 Aug 2017, 23:44
by allcheck10
Here is the summary of the log file. The actual log file is too long to copy/paste and goes over post limits. Is there a certain part of the log file taht would help?

Results
P MS Data 10432 420031 409600 [NO NAME]
FAT32, blocksize=2048, 209 MB / 200 MiB
MS Data 444416 1930475519 1930031104 [OS]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 988 GB / 920 GiB
MS Data 1909319681 1931421696 22102016
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 11 GB / 10 GiB
MS Data 1929529345 1930475520 946176
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 484 MB / 462 MiB
MS Data 1930475520 1931421695 946176 [WINRETOOLS]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 484 MB / 462 MiB
MS Data 1931421696 1953523711 22102016 [Image]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 11 GB / 10 GiB

Re: Partition and Recover Dell Hard Drive

Posted: 20 Aug 2017, 09:18
by cgrenier
If the partition is seen as raw you need to fix that first.