- Mar 29, 2011
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The other day I accidentally deleted the master boot record from my system when attempting to install a second OS to a separate partition and deleting the old OS. While I was using one of the programs on the Ultimate Boot CD to attempt to recover it, I believe I may have accidentally nuked my master file table on my other storage drive.
Here's the info I can provide:
The drive is not recognized in Computer.
The drive is recognized everywhere else, including disk management, bios, and other various software.
The drive has no drive letter assigned to it.
The drive has no volume according to diskpart (and thus, I cannot assign it a letter).
In disk management, it is listed as "healthy (active, primary partition)", right clicking only provides the "delete volume" option. it is listed as not having a file system and has 100% free space (the drive itself is almost completely full).
The drive has not been modified in any way other than that. the main partition is completely untouched.
I have already tried using Testdisk to recover the MFT, but it does not have the option to do so for that drive (it does for my primary).
I am using Windows 8.
The 1 TB drive in the image below is the one that I am attempting to fix: http://i.imgur.com/bLMmB2I.png
UPDATE:
I actually just found out how to recover most of the data using a program called GetDataBack. I'm able to recover all of my important information, but unfortunately I don't have the space to recover all of my replaceable stuff (almost entirely games).
It also appears that the MFT is intact, and it also detected 2 boot records, so I'm still unsure as to why it isn't being recognized.
If anyone knows how I can get that to work so I don't have to redownload over half a terabyte of games (we have a 250 GB / month data cap), that would be fantastic.
Here's some additional info that may be of use: http://i.imgur.com/eIekpMa.png
Here's the info I can provide:
The drive is not recognized in Computer.
The drive is recognized everywhere else, including disk management, bios, and other various software.
The drive has no drive letter assigned to it.
The drive has no volume according to diskpart (and thus, I cannot assign it a letter).
In disk management, it is listed as "healthy (active, primary partition)", right clicking only provides the "delete volume" option. it is listed as not having a file system and has 100% free space (the drive itself is almost completely full).
The drive has not been modified in any way other than that. the main partition is completely untouched.
I have already tried using Testdisk to recover the MFT, but it does not have the option to do so for that drive (it does for my primary).
I am using Windows 8.
The 1 TB drive in the image below is the one that I am attempting to fix: http://i.imgur.com/bLMmB2I.png
UPDATE:
I actually just found out how to recover most of the data using a program called GetDataBack. I'm able to recover all of my important information, but unfortunately I don't have the space to recover all of my replaceable stuff (almost entirely games).
It also appears that the MFT is intact, and it also detected 2 boot records, so I'm still unsure as to why it isn't being recognized.
If anyone knows how I can get that to work so I don't have to redownload over half a terabyte of games (we have a 250 GB / month data cap), that would be fantastic.
Here's some additional info that may be of use: http://i.imgur.com/eIekpMa.png
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