dssssssssssssssHello! Awesome recovery program!
I lost all of my partitions somehow. (Tried to boot into USB stick with GP(arted to do some partitioning. While it was loading, I got impatient and restarted the laptop. On the second attempt, I successfully booted into GParted on USB and found my hard drive EMPTY.)
Without USB boot stick, on boot, the screen says, "No bootable media found. Please connect a working drive." or something similar.
Now, I'm using Fedora on USB to mess around with TestDisk to recover my partitions. I noticed the message "The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 1247 GB / 1161 GiB)", and I think this is the source of my main problem of not being able to successfully recover my working partitions.
What I also noticed while choosing the partitions to recover (Delete, Primary, *Boot, Logical), was that my main drive (C:) can't be switched to P or L unless couple of other partitions (AOMEI) are switched to D, but before my partitions went missing, they used to coexist without a problem.
Here, I attach a couple of screenshots and a log file for you experts to point me to the right direction in this journey of partition recovery.
Log: http://dumptext.com/SQRilT11/raw/
Thank you!
Harddisk seems too small? (Screenshots & log attached)
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Re: Harddisk seems too small? (Screenshots & log attached)
HTS541010A9E680 is a 1 TB disk
EFI GPT may be the correct partition table type, not PC Intel.
Try to recover the following partitions:
Do NOT set the partition Recovery as *(bootable).
EFI GPT may be the correct partition table type, not PC Intel.
Try to recover the following partitions:
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P HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 63 188 61 1021952 [Recovery]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 523 MB / 499 MiB
P FAT32 63 188 62 76 124 48 204800 [EFI System Partition] [NO NAME]
FAT32, blocksize=1024, 104 MB / 100 MiB
P HPFS - NTFS 78 134 57 65270 245 63 1047316480
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 536 GB / 499 GiB
P HPFS - NTFS 65270 246 1 65334 147 29 1021952 [Recovery]
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 523 MB / 499 MiB
P FAT32 LBA 65334 147 30 65347 83 16 204800 [NO NAME]
FAT32, blocksize=1024, 104 MB / 100 MiB