I've used TestDisk on UBCD/UBCD for Windows successfully before when partition tables have gotten messed up.
T On 3 Nov 2014 14:31, "D R" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
