Hello,
I’m a new user of TestDisk, therefore I apologise if I am covering old ground. I have recovered lost partitions on my SSD, however I cannot get the device to boot. The partitions are there, they have data but I believe they are not correctly labelled. I need to make one of the partitions Primary, instead of logical. Can this be done? If so, how and will I keep the data or will it be lost?
Thank you in advance.
Logical to Primary
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barndancer
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Re: Logical to Primary
Thank you. I have poured over the documentation, but I must be missing it. At no point can I see what to do.
To further elaborate, please see the following screenshots. They are in sequence order 1-5
Sorry if I've missed something obvious. Thank you.
To further elaborate, please see the following screenshots. They are in sequence order 1-5
Sorry if I've missed something obvious. Thank you.
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Re: Logical to Primary
...continued.
Thank you
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barndancer
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Re: Logical to Primary
I want to make this a bootable drive again, but I've read that these are seen a logical drives and they need to be Primary??
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J
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J
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Re: Logical to Primary
"but I've read that these are seen a logical drives" Where did you read that?barndancer wrote: 02 Mar 2022, 12:30 I want to make this a bootable drive again, but I've read that these are seen a logical drives and they need to be Primary??
Look at the last screen!
If your drives are visible and can be accessed using another computer use the repair installation feature of your Windows operating system. This may be already on your computer.
Otherwise boot from your repair installation media (DVD, USB-stick).
I don't support making your system bootable again. I am lacking the experience with modern Windows operating systems. Furthermore there are lots of details that influence the repair process that users don't know about. This is simply too time-consuming. The base installation of Windows 7 takes roughly 10 minutes.
You can use Testdisk to rescue your data and reinstall Windows.
The best way though is to put your old boot device aside and reinstall Windows on a new device.