Retrieving data from a DVD

michaelk · 09-23-2015, 08:29 PM

A recovery disk will typically restore your computer back to its original brand new out of the box condition. A windows install disk will be able to restore the windows boot loader to boot your existing system. Your computer does have a recovery partition. What windows OS is on this computer?

If you have any data that you do not want to lose you can boot a linux live DVD to copy windows files to a USB drive.

Seff · 09-23-2015, 08:34 PM

I have Windows 7 installed. Does this look like it would solve the problem?

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Originally Posted by fdisk

This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda2p1 1920221984 3736432267 908105142 72 Unknown
/dev/sda2p2 ? 1936028192 3889681299 976826554 6c Unknown
/dev/sda2p3 ? 0 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda2p4 27722122 27722568 223+ 0 Empty