- Sep 15, 2014
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I have exhausted all my knowledge, and I am ready to commit murder...
I was running a system diagnostic on my Windows 7 machine. The power went out, after an hour the power came back on, and the diagnostic tried to continue. Five minutes later the power went out again....
When the PC booted back up, it skipped the diagnostics and it tried to boot normally,.....it sat at the windows logo for 2 hours, and never progressed. So I tried to reboot the machine,...it went straight to the run the windows repair screen.
Now Even if I go to the Windows repair option,..it is useless. I get an error telling me that the MBR is corrupt. I tried several windows developer forum recommended options to rebuild the MBR, but they failed. I have tried to use the DOS window to locate the partition and it is gone.
In a DOS window I can see the drive with DISKPART. I can make the drive active, but when it comes to making the partition active, there is no partition information.
I NEED THIS DRIVE and the data on it. What can I use to recreate the partition to recover the data?
I have even added a new drive and installed Windows on it, and then used that as the boot drive, but when the system loads, the old drive is not shown as a slave so I can move the data over to the new drive.
I either need to be able to mount this drive as a slave so I can grab the data from it, or I need to rebuild the partition table so I can boot the drive and dump the data onto another drive.
Any and all help would be VERY appreciated.
I was running a system diagnostic on my Windows 7 machine. The power went out, after an hour the power came back on, and the diagnostic tried to continue. Five minutes later the power went out again....
When the PC booted back up, it skipped the diagnostics and it tried to boot normally,.....it sat at the windows logo for 2 hours, and never progressed. So I tried to reboot the machine,...it went straight to the run the windows repair screen.
Now Even if I go to the Windows repair option,..it is useless. I get an error telling me that the MBR is corrupt. I tried several windows developer forum recommended options to rebuild the MBR, but they failed. I have tried to use the DOS window to locate the partition and it is gone.
In a DOS window I can see the drive with DISKPART. I can make the drive active, but when it comes to making the partition active, there is no partition information.
I NEED THIS DRIVE and the data on it. What can I use to recreate the partition to recover the data?
I have even added a new drive and installed Windows on it, and then used that as the boot drive, but when the system loads, the old drive is not shown as a slave so I can move the data over to the new drive.
I either need to be able to mount this drive as a slave so I can grab the data from it, or I need to rebuild the partition table so I can boot the drive and dump the data onto another drive.
Any and all help would be VERY appreciated.
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