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HDD Recovery
Hi,
A few days ago I noticed when playing videos I would get a stutter. This was with Vids on HDD and ones streaming.
The HDD is the only HDD in the laptop.
After the videos getting so bad with the frequent stuttering I shut it down. When I switched back on later it wouldn't boot. I could get the BIOS and boot options like safe mode but couldn't boot in to safe mode. Or boot at all. I'd had a problem before where it wouldn't boot normally and it did boot in to safe mode and then it would boot normally.
Anyway when I came home, I took the HDD out and put it in my enclosure and connected to another computer. All 4 partitions for the HDD are showing up. But the main one which was the C: drive is not accessible. The other 3 (SYSTEM,RECOVERY and HP TOOLS) are accessible but are empty aside from a few log files.
In disk manager the main drive which was C: is listed as a RAW file system. The other 3 have NTFS or FAT32.
I tried to see if I could fix this myself using Testdisk but have not had success. Although testdisk can access my main original C: drive and I can see all the files that I want to recover.
How can I make this drive accessible? I've tried writing the partition in Testdisk and it remains the same. Advanced section says the Boot Sector is OK.
At the moment I'm just using testdisk to save some files. But it isn't the most user friendly software I've came across.
Any help?