Bill, Oh, and when you need to do the bit image backup/clone, I would look at Macrium Reflect to perform that task. Then get EASUS Data Recovery Wizard 7.5 to try and recover that partition.
There may be other apps that you could use, but I find that these two really help because they are fast and up-to-date. But your mileage may vary. Hope all goes well. Daniel On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]> wrote: > looking for a suitable hard drive now. Thanks for the advice, Daniel. > > > Bill > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > on behalf of D R <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, November 2, 2014 11:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] help for a hypocrite > > Bill, > > The cloning of the drive would be a good safe measure. If possible, > clone with the exact same type of hard drive and do a bit image backup. > > Then, on that cloned drive, I would use the latest version of EASUS > Drive Partition Recovery. That would at least let you see data, info, etc., > from that partition since it 'reads' that partition regardless what the > current setting is. It sounds like the partition descriptors got hosed when > it went into hibernate mode and Windows, and Linux sees it as a RAW Drive > ready to be formatted. > > Else, if you had a disk hex editor you could just go and modify those > hex descriptors for that partition. It would be tricky, but could be done. > You would just need to know what those hex numbers are and replace them > with what the drive says for the current state of that partition. Once > changed, then try to boot up that cloned drive. It it comes up, great! Do a > backup and of that partition and the system state and then reformat another > drive, reinstall the OS, and then do a restore. Should be a days worth of > work. > > If it doesn't, then use the EASUS Drive Partition Recovery to 'read' the > suspect partition. The utility will need to store those files somewhere, so > you had better have a large thumb drive or an external hard drive that > works on USB 3.0 to put those files. > > And FYI, if you do use that utility, when it does a 'read' of that > partition you don't have any way to tell it to skip certain files and > directories. It does an 'all or nothing' approach. But, once the file is > read and recovered, you can then tell the utility which files you want to > move to a partition. > > Let us know how it goes > > On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Bill Humphries <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Ok, I haven't been fully practicing what I preach and haven't backup up >> a personal laptop in a while. It seems that my little girl was typing on >> it this weekend and my wife saw her and closed the lid...which should have >> made it hibernate. I go to open it tonight and it won't boot. I haven't >> noticed any bad hard drive sounds coming from it beforehand. >> >> >> This is a win 7 thinkpad. I yanked the harddrive and tried to mount it >> to another PC to look at data. In disk manager I could see the small >> system drive partition and the lenovo partition...the windows partition >> showed as RAW instead of readable. I then booted to ubuntu live CD and >> tried to see the data. In DISKS it shows that partition as unknown and >> doesn't present anything as available...but does show the other partitions >> as I would expect them to show in linux. >> >> >> Any ideas what has happened or best course of action? Should I try >> cloning the drive and working off of that? >> >> >> Thanks for any help/insight. >> >> >> Bill >> > > > > -- > Daniel Rodriguez > [email protected] > -- Daniel Rodriguez [email protected]
