Windows will not start after power outage during update

I just wanted to see the Partition Wizard screen. Something like this:

I hope the recovery works with the PW. I think the free edition copies only 1GB. If it does not work, post back - there are other ways.

bvw6 said:

@WHS

Ok, sorry, I wasn't sure that was what you wanted. It seemed a bit uninformative to me.
Anyway it's busy now, copying my partition, but I'll post a picture tomorrow if my problems aren't resolved by then.
My screen looks almost exactly the same though, the only differences are that I just have one disk with only one NTFS partition and my partition doesn't seem to have a label.
Instead of showing 'C:boot' like it should, it just shows '*:'.

That does not look too good for C. Keep us posted whether you could recover your stuff. Maybe then it would be best to reinnstall the OS. But first you need your files in a safe place.

Let's try to make an image of the partition. Then we can mount the image and try to retrieve the files. There are different methods.

1. The easiest would be with command prompt at startup - Option 2 in the tutorial. For that, however, the partition needs a letter. See whether you can assign the letter C with partition Wizard. You then run the following commands:

To find the letter to which you want to store the image, run

Diskpart
List volume

That shows you all the disks and remember the letter of the disk to where you will write the image.

To write the image, use this command

WBADMIN START BACKUP -backupTarget:X: -include:C:

Where X is the disk you found in List Volume

That disk X we will later connect to another PC and attach the VHD of that image.

2. If you have a live Linux CD and know how to use it, you can try to retrieve the data with that. If you have no Linux, you can use my method:

Emergency Kit - save your files from a dead OS

3. You can try to make an image with Macrium. For that you have to burn the macrium .iso to CD. The .iso you find on my Skydrive. You boot the system with that CD. To operate Macrium you can refer to this tutorial.

Imaging with free Macrium

The image may be readable because it is a completely new file. Matter of trying.