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Please find the screenshot attached.
System Recovery can't find my c drive
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New #12
That is not the main window. Post a screenshot of the main window. In the main window, it should tell you if it is recognizes as mbr or gpt. If it says mbr, then write the code to it again in case it is damaged. Rt click the disk and select Rebuild mbr.Use win7/8/10 type
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New #13
Sorry. Here it goes.
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New #14
If it is a Tosh A300 they are a few years old. Unlikely to have been gpt. I would rebuild the mbr ( it is just the executable code - doesn't affect the partition table). Then see if a scan can find anything. It will take a while to scan a 500gb disk.
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New #15
I am sorry but I forgot to change the Laptop that I have. Actually is a recent one. It is a Dell Latitude E7470, with a 500GB SSD.
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New #16
Pedro, did the SSD came with the laptop and does it has the original software?
Does it has Win 7 or Win 10?
What I don't understand is that a 6th generation CPU with M.2 SSD should come with a UEFI-GPT format. And your disk apparently is Legacy-MBR as it has a logical partition.
Pedro, you must give us all the details of the laptop and what did you do on the disk under Linux.
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New #17
Hi,
Yes it is the original SSD and it came with Windows Enterprise 64bit installed.
Regarding what I have done,
I was creating a bootable USB pen with a linux distro in it, and accidentally wrote to drive c instead of the letter of the pen. So when I started the machine it got stuck in the point when it starts the bootloader (grub/lilo) and loads the kernel. Basically it is waiting for me to point to a valid kernel.
After that you know the story, I used a 32bit pen to fix the boot of a 64bit windows 7.
Thanks,
Pedro
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New #18
Pedro, don't try to fix it.
I'm not the disk expert but I think you cleaned the whole disk and then formatted as ext4 (Linux default).
I will ask Jumanji for help.
Windows Enterprise 64bit installed is Win 7 or Win 10?
Who has installed? The company you work for?Last edited by Megahertz07; 05 Jul 2018 at 16:37.
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New #19
I see that you had used Minitool Partition Wizard ( your post#11). Use that and delete the 62.78MB partition. That should make your whole disk Unallocated. Once you make sure of that, run Partition Recovery Wizard. Let us see whether it finds all your previous partitions. Post a screenshot of found partitions.Last edited by jumanji; 04 Jul 2018 at 03:13.
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New #20
I've tried to delete the partition but it says it is locked by another program, which I don't know if it is true.
Using "PartGuru" gives a similar error: "The media is write protected."
Using "GParted" from an Ubuntu live CD gives the same error as above.Last edited by pcardoso73; 04 Jul 2018 at 04:49.
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