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Resolved Lap Top Harddisk resurrection?

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by FuzMic, 2015/03/10.

  1. 2015/03/10
    FuzMic

    FuzMic Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Hi guys

    I have a hard disk in a win7 lapTop WD5000BPVT and because the OS fail to load up, i took it out. Using a "SATA to USB" adapter i try to access it to recover data in it. When the drive is connected to a win7 pc, it sort of recognise it as "dynamic; with a ! sign. Nothing can be read from it as OS do not recognise it as a harddisk.

    Right click on it allows for "convert to Basic Disk ". According to its properties it is working ok. Does all this mean that the Partition table is corrupted or the Mast Boot Record is corrupted.

    Any advice to resurrect it?
     

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  4. 2015/03/11
    FuzMic

    FuzMic Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Thanks Tony will follow you as always. So you are saying it is a partition problem, Yes?

    For dos version at dos prompt, it did not detect the attached harddisk

    I am able to run testdisk_win.exe from my pc with the problem harddisk attached. the utility detected all partitions, followed by deeper search.
    Finally I write the partitions and reboot but the partition takes long time to appear, any views.

    Always much obliged with your leads.
     
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    FuzMic

    FuzMic Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    For Tony - just the testdisk screen shot.
     

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    Run it again and after the partitions are detected, use one of the tools to copy your data. Do this before rebuilding any partitions.
    Recovering files using TestDisk

    Note: when copying files, they will be copied to the directory where testdisk was launched. Thus, if you download to the Desktop and run it from there, files on the disk will get copied to the Desktop. Best to make a new folder called Recovered. Put testdisk in there and then run it. Any copied files will end up in Recovered rather than scattered over the Desktop.

    After copying is finished you can then try to rebuild the partition table and boot sector.
     
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    FuzMic

    FuzMic Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Tony will do copy instead of write partition, appreciate!!
     
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  8. 2015/03/12
    TonyT

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    Smart move. Always best to get your data off a drive prior to altering it. That way if things go awry at least you can put the data onto a new drive.
     
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