Hello,
I'm not a experienced, sorry if i am missing something.
The HDD that i am trying to recover is a 160GB Samsung from a Dell desktop with dual boot- XP and Vista. I was using 2 partitions, 20Gb + 140Gb
The pc just stopped booting, without any error message. Just black screen.
I run Testdisk from a live usb and there are issues with the drive. From the start it reports "No partition is bootable"
After Quick Scan, there are only 2 partitions found, one is the Dell Utility:
P on the NTFS partition doesn't show files, drops a filesystem error.
Selecting Deep Search i get a error "The following partition an't be recovered"
And then a list with more partitions:
I can see my files on the second (size 271536128) and on the last (size 40957952) partitions of the list.
(the 3rd of the list shows "NTFS found using backup sector", the rest just NTFS. All have "Structure: ok"
Seeing my files up there really brought me some piece of mind. Can someone please guide me on the next steps to recovery?
Thanks a lot!
Partition disaster? Not bootable.
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Re: Partition disaster? Not bootable.
Before advising you, I would like a screenshot (or the log file) corresponding to the current partition table as seen in Analyse before Quick Search or in the Advanced menu.
Re: Partition disaster? Not bootable.
EDIT: log added in attachment
Thanks for looking into this.
Here is a couple of screenshots, hope it's what you asked, i can try to get a log file later.
Thank you.
Thanks for looking into this.
Here is a couple of screenshots, hope it's what you asked, i can try to get a log file later.
Thank you.