Win7/Pro x64 - Booting Very Slow - Cannot Save Files

1. MiniTool Partition Wizard is not going to help because it has shown that your Partition is existing.(It is existing and not "lost/deleted")

( While on Partition Wizard, from version 10 onwards it will not do " Partition Recovery". Even if Partitions are lost and it finds the partitions, to write the new partition Table to sector 0 - that is what it does - you have to buy a license. You may uninstall version 10 and install version 9.1 which can do it for free. Download version MiniTool Partition Wizard Free 9.1 from here MiniTool Partition Wizard Free 10.1 Download for Windows / Old Versions / FileHorse.com and keep it for future use.)

2. Double clicking on the existing Partition found, you could see all your files. So your Data is still there. To that extent PW has helped but it cannot be used to copy the files. MiniTool Power Data Recovery again as you have already been intimated can recover only 1GB of data unless you pay and get the paid version. So I usually do not recommend it. ( TestDisk is free and can do it but do not test it or try it on your own - it could be pretty dangerous for the first time user ). I shall guide you to do it step by step)

3. By all means it indicates a File System corruption. We have to find out what is wrong and correct it if possible. But before we do any correction - which may or may not fructify - , as an abunbdant caution we shall try to copy the files first.

4. On your 2TB external drive on which you have free space create a folder named Recovery. This will be your destination to copy the files.

Now download "TestDisk & PhotoRec 7.0 (18 April 2015), Data Recovery" from here TestDisk Download - CGSecurity Extract it to the root of your system drive. ( Please download the Windows version and not the Windows 64bit version)



Shall continue after a break during which I have to search my own posts. :)

Continuing,

1. Your disk 0 - 119.24 GB is the System Disk.

2. Disk 1 - 931.51 GB WD Black is the RAW disk ( I presume it is your internal Data disk)

3. Plug in your 2TB Image Backup eSATA external drive Disk 2 on which you have created the Recovery Folder. This will be your Destination to copy files from the 1TB WD RAW disk
Repeat: Download TestDisk for Windows from here TestDisk Download - CGSecurity ( The second in the list.)( Do not download " Windows 64 bit" - that is not for you) Extract the testdisk-7.0.win.zip to the root of your system drive C:. You will run testdisk_win.exe in the extracted testdisk-7.0 folder.

Now run TestDisk. You will navigate/select/highlight by using Up/Down, Left/Right Arrow keys in the TestDisk Window.

Go to my post #6 here WD Elements being read as RAW // Contents readable through app

and follow the screenshots.

Screen1: [No Log] Enter. No change

Screen 2: Will show your 119.24 GB System Disk, 1TB RAW Disk and 2TB Destination Disk. It will also show Drive C:, Drive D: and Drive F: 2TB. In particular note the drive letter of your 2TB Destination Disk
Assuming F: is correct your destination to copy files - when we come to it - will be Directory F: \Recovery.

Select /Highlight only the 1TB Raw disk and not the drive. [Proceed] is highlighted. Press Enter

Screen 3: No change [Intel] Enter

Screen 4: No Change [Advanced] Enter

Screen 5: Does it show your Single partition in the 1TB drive with [Boot] highlighted.

If yes, press Enter to go to the sixth Screen and post a screenshot. Further instructions only after I see the screenshot.

After posting the screenshot and if I do not respond within half an hour - not online - you may close TestDisk by pressing X on the top Right TitleBar of the Window.

Caution: Do not proceed further or try any other command unless I instruct you to do so.

If at any stage you have a doubt, post a screenshot and quit TestDisk by pressing X as mentioned above.

Mostly I will be peeping in at regular intervals till my midnight.

However, there is no need to do things in a hurry. Haste makes waste. Do it on your own pace and time, cool and calm.. I shall catch you.

EDIT: Because of some prescribed sedative drugs, I am hitting the sack two and a half hours before the scheduled midnight. I shall see your post/ response only tom 10 A.M.(my time) after 12 hours from now. So you have all the time in the world to do what has been prescribed for you. :)

We are approaching (10 minutes left) my 11:00 PM and my aging body (< 1 month to end of year 77) will certainly want to be horizontal soon.

I will resist the temptation to push onward even though my screen and that of JTizzle in the referenced thread from last December are identical.

Let me anticipate and quote your instructions to him. You say:

"OK, both Boot sector and Backup boot sector are OK. Now repeat till you again get this screen, Move the Highlight to [Repair MFT] and press ENTER"

If you will say the same to me, what do you mean by "Now repeat till you again get this screen" ? I may be dense but I do not see what is to be repeated.

thanks
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