Hey
So on my laptop I have a 1.5tb sshh (hybrid) came with laptop and has 3 partitions on it
I was just using it normally one night I think I changed tabs on edge (yes I know I use edge) and it just crashed was hanging for ages but not responding I noticed I could push the windows key and the menu would come up but that was about it so was odd that something was responding
Then after a few minutes of it doing this I got the blue screen it said something along the lines of windows encounted a problem and needs to shut down, with the sad face in the corner of the screen
It re booted and went straight into bios
I thought this was weird and just re set it but same thing
Then under boot options I noticed only my dvd drive was listed I tried a windows repair via a usb installer but it said windows cant repair start up
I then went to command prompt and put in notepad, save as and looked around and everything was empty no files on the boot partition, the other two where fine
So I put it into my desktop and ran testdisk
Quick search found just the two partitions I could see
Deep search found nothing more
So I ran photorec and it recovered alot, I was semi happy
Until looking through it
Not a single file is from that boot sector, its like it never existed
I can't seem to manage to find a single file from it
Any ideas on what else I can try
Ive never had this issue before
Thank you in advance
Laptop crashed now cant find boot partition
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Re: Laptop crashed now cant find boot partition
Is your disk using PC Intel or EFI GPT partition table ?
Does TestDisk, Advanced list 3 partitions ?
Have you repaired your boot partition using chkdsk ?
Have you tried what is written in "How to make the system bootable again" from https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf ?
Does TestDisk, Advanced list 3 partitions ?
Have you repaired your boot partition using chkdsk ?
Have you tried what is written in "How to make the system bootable again" from https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf ?