Two Windows partitions

How to use TestDisk to recover lost partition
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zukuwa
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Two Windows partitions

#1 Post by zukuwa »

Hi, I accidentally started the Ubuntu installer and got as far as rewriting the partition table without realising I had the wrong drive in.
This drive has two Windows XP installations on it.
I used TestDisk and got this far with the [Deeper Search] option, the two partitions all seem to be fine and intact if I browse through the files on each.
I am totally clueless about this sort of thing though, I haven't touched it any further as I'm uncertain what to do.
I've attached a screenshot and can provide more if needed.

Any help would be massively appreciated, thanks in any case for the software and for reading.
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Re: Two Windows partitions

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Use the arrow keys to set the partitions to recover to *(bootable) or P(rimary).
On next screen, all your partitions should be listed, choose Write, confirm, Quit and reboot.

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