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OS partition is inaccessible and Windows won't boot
I'm in a really awkward situation.
Basically my base 1tb hard driven will not boot windows off of the main partition.
I've been messing with a live Ubuntu usb for a bit. Today, I accidentally began installing Unbuntu to my caching mSATA. I exited out of the installation and reformatted the cache drive. I think this is when my C:/ drive was no longer recognized by Ubuntu. Gparted said something along the lines that it was unstable and missing magic, so run chkdsk /f on it.
I restarted my computer, but was prompted to insert a bootable drive. After doing some serching, I created a recovery disk on my USB and booted that. My C: drive with the is was nowhere to be found.
Using command prompt, I opened DISKPART and reactivated the drive. It is now visible, when searching for drivers at the beginning of the recovery disk, but is not accessible or recognized as my OS drive.
Attempting to run CHKDSK will report it's NTFS, but not not find a volume or state. The partition was even hidden at one point, so I fixed that in DISKPART. Also DISKPART reports the partition is raw.
I've tried the start up repair to no avail and rebooting just gives me a unresponsive black screen with blinking terminal cursor. I'm really out of ideas what to do. Can I fix this problem or at least recover my 700+ gigs of files?
Thank you for your time and advice.