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Old 12-12-2011, 04:07 PM   #16
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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.
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?
 
Old 12-13-2011, 12:59 AM   #17
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There is definately an issue....
Testdisk includes a data recovery application called photorec
Do the same thing, open a terminal full screen and issue command: photorec
to recover data from that drive. You will need another drive to save the recovered data to. This drive should be the same or larger size as the drive in the laptop as photorec will pull all data including previously deleted data. You will go through stages of photorec configuration where you can specify which type of files to recover. It is "alright" when it comes to data recovery.
It is best to make an image of the drive first, in case things go sour. You can run photorec on the image to recover data and not harm the drive. There is a dd howto thread here at LQ that will quide you in making an image. You can also install dcfldd which is a little better as it will make an image much faster, but keep in mind, the drive where the image will be written to should be larger than the drive being imaged as it will be a bit for bit image.
 
Old 12-13-2011, 02:29 PM   #18
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SO....
There is definately an issue....
Testdisk includes a data recovery application called photorec
Do the same thing, open a terminal full screen and issue command: photorec
to recover data from that drive. You will need another drive to save the recovered data to. This drive should be the same or larger size as the drive in the laptop as photorec will pull all data including previously deleted data. You will go through stages of photorec configuration where you can specify which type of files to recover. It is "alright" when it comes to data recovery.
It is best to make an image of the drive first, in case things go sour. You can run photorec on the image to recover data and not harm the drive. There is a dd howto thread here at LQ that will quide you in making an image. You can also install dcfldd which is a little better as it will make an image much faster, but keep in mind, the drive where the image will be written to should be larger than the drive being imaged as it will be a bit for bit image.
Thanks, it turns out this laptop (corporate image) is encrypted so I don't think I could have really done anything. I tried several different boot disks and nothing would read the drive even though I could get to a windows login prompt. So, I just reformatted and will have to redo some things. Thanks to everyone for all the feedback though.
 
  


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