GUID Partition Table & MBR Mistake

gregrocker said:

........ but wonder why the drive needed initialization if you had not wiped it. .....

Exactly. In fact my previous post had this:

1. Why did you remove the HDD from your system and installed an SSD? Was there any problem with the HDD? If there was what was it?

2. Who removed the HDD, installed the SSD and installed the OS? Did you do it yourself or was it done by someone else?

3. If it was some one else, is there a possibility that he could have wiped the HDD clean?


Before posting I cut out 2 and 3 thinking we will cross the river when we come to it.

When using Bootice, the OP can quickly scroll through various sectors ( I do it with the mouse wheel) and check whether there is any data present at all or everything reads 00 which would mean the disk has been wiped out.

I basically had this doubt but did not want to rush.

Attached is the drive while plugged into my desktop machine internally. When you mentioned you wanted a picture of the BIOS BOOT menu, which computer? The laptop, or the desktop it is currently plugged in to?

EDIT:

1. Why did you remove the HDD from your system and installed an SSD? Was there any problem with the HDD? If there was what was it?

No problem. Just wanted a larger drive. HDD was 640GB, SSHD is 1TB.

2. Who removed the HDD, installed the SSD and installed the OS? Did you do it yourself or was it done by someone else?

I did all the work myself. I have installed Windows 7 on this machine several times. Previous times didn't warrant a back up of files, this time, I thought I'd snag my files off the drive after I did the install, which is where we ran into this problem.

3. If it was some one else, is there a possibility that he could have wiped the HDD clean?

Due to the answer above, this is N/A. I did the move myself, and I am SURE I didn't format/wipe the old drive.

It says clearly in Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image to maximize the Disk Mgmt windows and then spread the column headers so we can see all columns, yet the important size columns are left out so we can't see how much space it claims D is using.

What we can see is that it is labeled RAW which essentially means ruined.

Did you run Partition Wizard Partition Recovery Wizard - Video Help?

Attached are 4 images as requested.

There is an image of the BIOS Boot Menu of the affected machine, There are two images of the Partition Wizard, there is also a new image of the Disk Management screen too. Sorry about the size issue before. What else can I do to help you gentlemen? :)

Britton30 said:

I believe Greg wanted a snap of the boot tab from BIOS, maybe snaps of sub-menus open as well.

Attached.

Now what constitutes the last boot state of the HDD? As per OP he had a dual boot Windows Enterprise and Windows 8.1. OP may please confirm.

That is correct.

EDIT:

jumanji said:

OP may perhaps be able to tell what partitions and what size he had in the last boot state.

I have attached an additional photo highlighting my Windows 7 partition with all my data on it. I explored it and confirmed that is the partition with my system files, music, videos, pictures, etc.

The partition a few below that titled "SIERRA" would be the Windows 8.1 Partition. Also confirmed. There is one at the very top titled "System", I don't quite know what it is, but that completes the rest of the drive as shown in the third attachment.

I think you are good to go for a go ahead to write the partition table.

Anyway wait for a nod from greg.

(While I think we are coming to a near close in this thread, I would still be curious to know what Bootice shows before rewriting the partition table and after. Wouldn't matter if you cannot or still not prepared to do it.)