Anyone having problems with testdisk.. use grub4dos here is the instructions I used that worked flawlessly
Turns out testdisk works properly if ran by a bootmanager like grub4dos not inside windows.
How I fixed it
Download grub4dos from
http://download.gna.org/grub4dos/
I used this one
http://download.gna.org/grub4dos/grub4dos-0.4.4.zip
Copy all the contents into a usb..
I would format it in FAT32 since some BIOS don't support NTFS by default mines didn't FAT32 is good if your USB is less then or equal to 4GB to do this I used a special tool called RMPrepUSB from
http://www.rmprepusb.com/ direct download link from here:
http://www.rmprepusb.com/documents/rele ... ects=0&d=1
After it's formatted successfully you might have to install MBR of grub4dos using RMPrepUSB tool to your USB both options.. the Yes and No, then copy all the files extracted from grub4dos onto the USB.
Open up the menu.lst from your USB in a good editor (not plain notepad as it has special linux break symbols).
Paste this to the menu anywhere after a closing chainloader from some previous menu.
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title TestDisk
find --set-root --ignore-floppies testdisk.iso
map testdisk.iso (hd32)
map --hook
chainloader (hd32)
then you have to copy the testdisk.iso which I couldn't attach to this forum as it exceeds the 256 kb limit it.s about 1.7 megs here is the direct link for that
https://app.box.com/shared/np1hh4fmpc
Now testdisk will do the deep search much faster and it will find the correct results you will then have to do
Rebuild BS which will work perfectly and create a Good backup too.
Yup no files got lost in the process and I didn't even need to use a Windows XP CD either.. after this I just booted into Recovery Console and did a COPY using the working NTLDR file from
http://milescomer.com/tinyempire.com/no ... issing.htm
Now everything works great!
I converted it into the Linux which this tool testdisk recommended big mistake..
Now when I boot I get this error
If I press any key on the keyboard I get spammed with that 1234F messages
But the bright side I managed to fix all of this
