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Invalid System Partition Problem
Hallo,
So a couple days ago my Windows install decided to go kablooey. (I am dual-booting 7 and openSUSE but I'm removing SUSE once I fix Windows) I determined the cause to be an "invalid system partition."
I found another thread involving some business about diskpart in the command line, so I tried that. (my hardware manufacturer installed a version of system restore on my hdd, just fyi)
Only problem is, I think I selected the wrong volume to activate. There were three partitions there: one was my disk drive, one was 100 MB labelled SYSTEM RESE(t?) and NTFS, and one was 347GB and formatted as RAW (probably the volume where all my windows stuff was.)
because the 100mb one was NTFS, i selected that to activate. Didn't really work out too well because it didnt fix my computer and now my hard copy of system recovery won't work, and the disk takes foreeevverrr to find windows installations (it's running right now - still havent seen it complete yet)
buuuuuutyyyeaaaaah if anyone has any sort of clue as to how or if i can save my data that'd be awesome. I tried booting into a ubuntu live cd (because my suse installation is right messed up) and getting into the windows filesystem but it wouldn't mount - told me to run chkdsk and i did and everything came back fine.
THanks for the help in advance!