My desktop was working fine and all of a sudden it can't boot it. I took the harddisk out and access it with another loptop thru disk enclosure. Under F drive it shows o bytes free of 0 bytes. and instead of NTFS it shows raw data. how can i recover the data and start the computer again
C drive shows raw partition
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You need to recover the boot sector, get software that will repair that. Something has overwritten it.
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The question is do you have actual data valuable that cannot be reproduced or is it the only thing you want to start up the computer ? If you wish to recover data, take it to a data recovery center (most small PC stores will do it), otherwise to have a running system, get the installation CD, re-partition drive (delete all partitions & create a new one), format & install clean. Make sure you have downloaded all drivers for that PC onto a CD or USB stick.
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I will try but before i do that, do you know while recovery, i will be able to see directory structure also or not? I have lots of office files, pics, and PDF that i want to recover them with the folder. Few software i looked only recover and group them in specific file type. Issue with that would be i have to open them one by one and separate them in different folder.
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If only the boot sector was damaged, you can add the drive in SLAVE mode to a working computer & be able to transfer files freely. Before accessing the drive, I would run a full anti-virus-spyware-rootkit on it first, just to be sure.
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