Win 7 corrupt
Posted: 10 Nov 2012, 17:22
Dell N5010 Laptop / Seagate 640gb disk with what I assume to be Win7 home premium on it. Was donated and missing charger and battery so may not be worth investment. Computer gets past BIOS post then black screen. Can't F8. I don't know what files are on disk so don't care about files. Just want to repair FS for practice. If not I can wipe clean and use as external storage.
Removed disk and used SATA/USB adapter to connect to 2 netbooks. One Winxp and one Win7. Running chkdisk does not seem to do anything. On Win 7 starter netbook , check disk utility returns "windows cannot access this disk".There are three partitions in device manager all healthy but 2 main partitions (labeled E and F) show as RAW data. I guess small partition at beginning of drive is MBR and not given a letter.
So connected drive with same SATA/USB adapter to PCLinuxOS on another laptop running Linux testdisk. . Am following instructions here --> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step - and ran analyse, then deeper, but unsure what next.
Testdisk reports:
Disk /dev/sdb - 640 GB / 596 GiB - CHS 77826 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* FAT16 >32M 0 32 33 12 223 16 204797 [DellUtility]
D HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 1925 27 22 30720000
D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 22 3837 86 24 30720000
D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 23 14673 80 63 204800000
D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 23 77825 48 31 1219334832 [OS]
D HPFS - NTFS 2611 0 1 9728 254 63 114350670
D HPFS - NTFS 14673 81 1 19457 48 31 76852912 [ALCHEMY]
Pressing P on each entry to list files gives " can't open filesystem ...seems damaged " - AND on
Line "D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 23 14673 80 63 204800000 " testdisk also reports:
NTFS found using backup sector!, 104 GB / 97 GiB. I can also post testdisk log if needed.
Any help appreciated.
Removed disk and used SATA/USB adapter to connect to 2 netbooks. One Winxp and one Win7. Running chkdisk does not seem to do anything. On Win 7 starter netbook , check disk utility returns "windows cannot access this disk".There are three partitions in device manager all healthy but 2 main partitions (labeled E and F) show as RAW data. I guess small partition at beginning of drive is MBR and not given a letter.
So connected drive with same SATA/USB adapter to PCLinuxOS on another laptop running Linux testdisk. . Am following instructions here --> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step - and ran analyse, then deeper, but unsure what next.
Testdisk reports:
Disk /dev/sdb - 640 GB / 596 GiB - CHS 77826 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* FAT16 >32M 0 32 33 12 223 16 204797 [DellUtility]
D HPFS - NTFS 12 223 20 1925 27 22 30720000
D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 22 3837 86 24 30720000
D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 23 14673 80 63 204800000
D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 23 77825 48 31 1219334832 [OS]
D HPFS - NTFS 2611 0 1 9728 254 63 114350670
D HPFS - NTFS 14673 81 1 19457 48 31 76852912 [ALCHEMY]
Pressing P on each entry to list files gives " can't open filesystem ...seems damaged " - AND on
Line "D HPFS - NTFS 1925 27 23 14673 80 63 204800000 " testdisk also reports:
NTFS found using backup sector!, 104 GB / 97 GiB. I can also post testdisk log if needed.
Any help appreciated.