| Windows 7: MBR? 2 Partitions, 1 ok, 1 not ok. How to Recover Data? |
25 Nov 2009
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#1 | | Windows7 on desktop & Vista on laptop California |
MBR? 2 Partitions, 1 ok, 1 not ok. How to Recover Data? I have 3 hard drives currently installed in my computer. 2 are seagate sata-3g interface, easy. I pulled out an old IDE hard drive, a samsung 300GB. It's set to slave. On the post and boot screens, and the BIOS, it indicates the IDE drive is FAT32. Within Windows 7, it says that it is not formatted. It even said it was RAW.... that's not right! So I downloaded EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition and ran it. Now it shows Drive 3 as being split into 2 partitions: first partition (named "Ho" shows FAT32 formatting). The second partition (named "applications" shows no formatting). At one point I had this as my main drive and set my default settings in my O/S to install all my applications in that partition. I set all default folders to point to that drive at the time. I wanted to keep my O/S on one partition and all my applications, photos, user data, etc, on the other, so that when I defragged, I really only had to keep up with the applications partition, since I never changed anything on my main partition. Here is a screen shot:
I would like to save the data on the applications partition. I tried a few tools that "dug" up my old drives and I did get a few logos, application graphics, splash screens, etc, but really not much of value.
Any recommendations on how to recover lost data on Windows 7? I also would like to convert all drives to NTFS, so I can just run CONVERT drive from a cmd prompt, right? Thanks...
This 3rd IDE disc is giving me the most trouble. I have another question. In my BIOS, under SATA settings, I have it set to AUTO. Should it be set to something else, like ALHC (or whaetver that is) or RAID? I am not really running RAID drives here, but I never heard of the other option, so I was curious about it. I also haven't run SATA and IDE together like this, and since it's Windows 7, just wondering if there are iissues regarding it.
Thanks | My System Specs |
| System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built ASUS-based mid-tower OS Windows7 on desktop & Vista on laptop CPU AMD Athlon II X2 240 Motherboard ASUS M3A78-EM Memory 4 GB Corsair DDR2 1066MHz (2x2096MB) Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU (integrated graphics) Sound Card Realtek ALC1200 HD Audio 8-Channel CODEC (integrated sound) Monitor(s) Displays 20" HANNspree flatscreen HMDI HF207 & DYNEX HDTV Screen Resolution HDMI 1600x900 (recommended setting, so I leave it) Keyboard Omnitech rubber flexible ultrathin USB/PS/2 adapter USB Mouse Wacom Bamboo Fun small Pen Mouse Tablet PSU 450W Case Power Up! ATX mid-tower Cooling 120mm Side Case Cooling Fan, CPU Fan Hard Drives Seagate 500GB LP SATA HD/5900/16MB/SATA-3G,
Seagate 250GB SATA HD/7200/16MB/SATA-3G,
Samsung 300GB HD300LD PATA,
WD My Book Essentials 1TB USB 2.0 external Internet Speed Cable Other Info Laptop computer: COMPAQ Presario C762NR Notebook PC w/Intel Pentium dual-CPU T2370 @ 1.73 GHz, 15.4" BrightView running Vista Home Premium SP2 32-BIT, 3 GB RAM, with external Western Digital 1tb My Book Essentials USB Hard drive. |
25 Nov 2009
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You can Google for software that restores partitions. There are quite a few of them. I forget the names since I haven't used any in ages. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number self built OS 7600.20510 x86 CPU P4 550 3.4 GHz HT running at 3.5 GHz Motherboard MSI PM8M3-V (MS-7211 v1.x) Micro-ATX mainboard Memory OCZ 2 GB(2x1GB) DDR400mHz running @ 414 mHz Graphics Card HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 Turbo HDMI Dual DL-DVI AGP Sound Card MOTU Traveler firewire studio interface 192 kHz 24 bit Monitor(s) Displays 22" widescreen Acer X223W LCD, 17" Compaq P75 CRT Screen Resolution 1680x1050 and 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitch Classical Keyboard 200 Mouse Logitech Mediaplay cordless PSU 350W generic Case Cybertronpc, it glows blue Cooling stock cpu fan, Ice-Q 3 gpu and system, many case fans Hard Drives SATA I x2 WD, 400 GB and 120 GB, SATA 2 WD Caviar Black 1 TB Internet Speed 1792/448 kbits/sec Other Info SATA II PCI fake RAID adapter, 1 GB Readyboost, original ATI Remote Wonder (even works with WMC perfectly), Logitech Rumblepad 2 game controller x2 |
25 Nov 2009
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#3 | | Windows7 on desktop & Vista on laptop California |
That's the blinding obvious isn't it? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built ASUS-based mid-tower OS Windows7 on desktop & Vista on laptop CPU AMD Athlon II X2 240 Motherboard ASUS M3A78-EM Memory 4 GB Corsair DDR2 1066MHz (2x2096MB) Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU (integrated graphics) Sound Card Realtek ALC1200 HD Audio 8-Channel CODEC (integrated sound) Monitor(s) Displays 20" HANNspree flatscreen HMDI HF207 & DYNEX HDTV Screen Resolution HDMI 1600x900 (recommended setting, so I leave it) Keyboard Omnitech rubber flexible ultrathin USB/PS/2 adapter USB Mouse Wacom Bamboo Fun small Pen Mouse Tablet PSU 450W Case Power Up! ATX mid-tower Cooling 120mm Side Case Cooling Fan, CPU Fan Hard Drives Seagate 500GB LP SATA HD/5900/16MB/SATA-3G,
Seagate 250GB SATA HD/7200/16MB/SATA-3G,
Samsung 300GB HD300LD PATA,
WD My Book Essentials 1TB USB 2.0 external Internet Speed Cable Other Info Laptop computer: COMPAQ Presario C762NR Notebook PC w/Intel Pentium dual-CPU T2370 @ 1.73 GHz, 15.4" BrightView running Vista Home Premium SP2 32-BIT, 3 GB RAM, with external Western Digital 1tb My Book Essentials USB Hard drive. |
25 Nov 2009
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#4 | | Windows7 on desktop & Vista on laptop California |
If you see, it shows only 31G on that 300GB drive. It also doesn't show a drive letter. Both are "*" marks, which indicate it isn't just the bad second partition.
It seems this is a master boot record issue? Yes/no? Is it possibe to rebuild the FAT table or MBR or whatever, under the Windows 7 O/S? | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom built ASUS-based mid-tower OS Windows7 on desktop & Vista on laptop CPU AMD Athlon II X2 240 Motherboard ASUS M3A78-EM Memory 4 GB Corsair DDR2 1066MHz (2x2096MB) Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU (integrated graphics) Sound Card Realtek ALC1200 HD Audio 8-Channel CODEC (integrated sound) Monitor(s) Displays 20" HANNspree flatscreen HMDI HF207 & DYNEX HDTV Screen Resolution HDMI 1600x900 (recommended setting, so I leave it) Keyboard Omnitech rubber flexible ultrathin USB/PS/2 adapter USB Mouse Wacom Bamboo Fun small Pen Mouse Tablet PSU 450W Case Power Up! ATX mid-tower Cooling 120mm Side Case Cooling Fan, CPU Fan Hard Drives Seagate 500GB LP SATA HD/5900/16MB/SATA-3G,
Seagate 250GB SATA HD/7200/16MB/SATA-3G,
Samsung 300GB HD300LD PATA,
WD My Book Essentials 1TB USB 2.0 external Internet Speed Cable Other Info Laptop computer: COMPAQ Presario C762NR Notebook PC w/Intel Pentium dual-CPU T2370 @ 1.73 GHz, 15.4" BrightView running Vista Home Premium SP2 32-BIT, 3 GB RAM, with external Western Digital 1tb My Book Essentials USB Hard drive. |
25 Nov 2009
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Quote: Originally Posted by djpurity That's the blinding obvious isn't it? If it's so obvious, why are you posting for help about it? 
Quote: Originally Posted by djpurity If you see, it shows only 31G on that 300GB drive. It also doesn't show a drive letter. Both are "*" marks, which indicate it isn't just the bad second partition.
It seems this is a master boot record issue? Yes/no? Is it possibe to rebuild the FAT table or MBR or whatever, under the Windows 7 O/S? Follow my first post.
No, I don't see 31 GB anything in the screenshot nor a 300 GB drive. | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number self built OS 7600.20510 x86 CPU P4 550 3.4 GHz HT running at 3.5 GHz Motherboard MSI PM8M3-V (MS-7211 v1.x) Micro-ATX mainboard Memory OCZ 2 GB(2x1GB) DDR400mHz running @ 414 mHz Graphics Card HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 Turbo HDMI Dual DL-DVI AGP Sound Card MOTU Traveler firewire studio interface 192 kHz 24 bit Monitor(s) Displays 22" widescreen Acer X223W LCD, 17" Compaq P75 CRT Screen Resolution 1680x1050 and 1280x1024 Keyboard Logitch Classical Keyboard 200 Mouse Logitech Mediaplay cordless PSU 350W generic Case Cybertronpc, it glows blue Cooling stock cpu fan, Ice-Q 3 gpu and system, many case fans Hard Drives SATA I x2 WD, 400 GB and 120 GB, SATA 2 WD Caviar Black 1 TB Internet Speed 1792/448 kbits/sec Other Info SATA II PCI fake RAID adapter, 1 GB Readyboost, original ATI Remote Wonder (even works with WMC perfectly), Logitech Rumblepad 2 game controller x2 |
25 Nov 2009
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#6 | | Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
On any drive with shadows you can recover data with Shadow Explorer. ShadowExplorer.com - About | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7 Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207 Keyboard with trackball - no mices Mouse Trackball mice Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals Internet Speed DSL 6000 |
26 Nov 2009
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#7 | | windows 7 RTM x64 michigan (metro detroit area) |
He can't read the partition, he's not just missing a few files. Shadow copies only help you when you don't have problems reading the rest of the drive.
I have used a few data recovery tools, the two best i have found are "BackToLife" and "Easy Recovery Pro" | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Black_Box (homebuilt) OS windows 7 RTM x64 CPU Phenom II 965 Quad Core 3.4Ghz Motherboard Asus M4A79T Deluxe Memory Mushkin Blackline 8GB (4x2gb) Graphics Card XFX Radeon 5970 Black Edition Sound Card onboard Monitor(s) Displays Dell 2408WPF-main Dell E248WFP-secondary Screen Resolution 1920x1200-main 1920x1200-secondary Keyboard Logitech MX 5500 wireless keyboard Mouse Razor Copperhead PSU XFX 850w Black Edition (Modular) Case Mountian Mods H2go Cooling CoolITSystems ECO A.L.C. Hard Drives OCZ Vertex Limited Edition 100GB (OS)
x1 WD Black Edition 500GB drive (Storage) Internet Speed 16Mb down/2Mb up Wowway Cable Internet |
26 Nov 2009
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Quote: Originally Posted by torrentg If it's so obvious, why are you posting for help about it? Do you know how much crappy software you can download off the internet? | My System Specs | | MBR? 2 Partitions, 1 ok, 1 not ok. How to Recover Data? problems? All times are GMT -5. The time now is 04:59 PM. | |