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Originally Posted by Brains
Actually: Since it is saying the NTFS signature is missing, this might be a breeze for a partition recovery utility like testdisk or bootitng. To use testdisk, read man pages, open a terminal full screen and run command: testdisk. Or try fix /mbr with Windows XP recovery console with install disk.
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Tried to run recovery console in XP but it errors out.
I ran testdisk and got the following on analysis:
Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 9728 254 63 156296322
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 9728 254 63 156296322
I then tried to do a boot sector recovery in the Advanced section and got the following:
Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9730 255 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 9728 254 63 156296322
Boot sector
Status: Bad
Backup boot sector
Status: Bad
Sectors are not identical.
A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.
any other ideas?