Solved Diskpart clean done accidently...Please help!!
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I may have to ask you to redo the bootable DOS drive to eliminate certain doubts I have now and I want to make sure there is no error.
Plugin your pendrive, run Rufus and post the screenshot like the one shown in my post #19 before you click on START.
Plugin your pendrive, run Rufus and post the screenshot like the one shown in my post #19 before you click on START.
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and I installed window 10 now. Before I was have window 7.
Here is the screenshot of rufus and after pasting into drive.
http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/product/2/4706/8600_big.jpg
and I installed window 10 now. Before I was have window 7.
Here is the screenshot of rufus and after pasting into drive.
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OK, fine except that you have not chosen MSDOS ( but left it in the default FreeDOS.My instruction:In "Create a bootable disk using" select MS-DOS in the dropdown arrow") But for that everything is OK. It forced me to create a pendrive with FreeDOS to give further instructions. You need not create another DOS disk and we shall continue.
I shall now run it on my drive and give you further instructions.( I have already converted an MBR external drive with four partitions into a GPT drive more or less recreating your situation.) I shall be back in another one or two hours hours after running the trial on it.)
But be watchful and carry the instructions.
When you want to quit TestDisk
1. You can repeatedly press Q in the keyboard till you get out of it.
2. Once out , push the reset button on your PC to boot into Windows.
I shall now run it on my drive and give you further instructions.( I have already converted an MBR external drive with four partitions into a GPT drive more or less recreating your situation.) I shall be back in another one or two hours hours after running the trial on it.)
But be watchful and carry the instructions.
When you want to quit TestDisk
1. You can repeatedly press Q in the keyboard till you get out of it.
2. Once out , push the reset button on your PC to boot into Windows.
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I forgot to tell you how to copy the files listed by TestDisk when you come that stage.
Please read this: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385
What you have to read is only from screenshot 3 there.
Your 1TB external drive is now empty isn't it? Create a folder named Recovery in the external drive.
You will be navigating to this folder as the destination to copy the files as explained in that post.
Please read this: http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385
What you have to read is only from screenshot 3 there.
Your 1TB external drive is now empty isn't it? Create a folder named Recovery in the external drive.
You will be navigating to this folder as the destination to copy the files as explained in that post.
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Checklist:
a). Do you know whether your new 1TB external drive is an MBR drive or GPTdrive? If you do not know run Partition Wizard and check that it shows as a Basic MBR drive in disk map.
b). Have you created a folder named Recovery on that external drive?
Shut down your PC. Plug in your 1TB external drive and the bootable DOS pendrive with TestDisk. Till you finish Recovery, leave those connected to the same USB ports. ( Changing to different USB ports may change the order in whichTestDisk enumerates those)
Power on your PC and using the onetime boot menu, boot with the pendrive.
1.At the Command prompt C:\> type testdisk.exe and press Enter
2. Screen 1. Using up/down arrows, highlight [No Log] and press enter.
3. Screen 2. Will show three drives your 8GB pendrive,your system drive andthe 1 TB external
drive. Highlight your system drive and pressenter to [Proceed].
4.Screen 3. Is [EFI GPT] highlighted? Move it to [Intel] for we want to analyse it as an MBR drive and
get the partitions. Press enter.
5. Screen4. [Analyse] press enter.
6. Screen 5. May show your current partition structure with a warning. That's Ok. Press enter. to do a
[Quick Search]
7.Screen 6. Allow the analysis to complete Do you now see your NTFS partitions now? At the bottom do you see the message " Structure OK blah blah......" Read the complete message and you will see - P to list files. Highlight the partition you want to list files and type capital P (Shift+P)
8. Screen7. Do you see the files in the partition? Select and copy those to the Recovery folder in the external. How to navigate and copy, I had already given the link explaining it herehttp://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385 and so I am not going to repeat.Repeat the above procedure to copy the files in other partitions too.
At any point you have a doubt take a snapshot ( you had already done it ) and quit Test Disk. Post the snapshot.
(When you want to quit TestDisk
1. You can repeatedly press Q in the keyboard till you get out of it.
2. Once out , push the reset button on your PC to boot into Windows.)
a). Do you know whether your new 1TB external drive is an MBR drive or GPTdrive? If you do not know run Partition Wizard and check that it shows as a Basic MBR drive in disk map.
b). Have you created a folder named Recovery on that external drive?
Shut down your PC. Plug in your 1TB external drive and the bootable DOS pendrive with TestDisk. Till you finish Recovery, leave those connected to the same USB ports. ( Changing to different USB ports may change the order in whichTestDisk enumerates those)
Power on your PC and using the onetime boot menu, boot with the pendrive.
1.At the Command prompt C:\> type testdisk.exe and press Enter
2. Screen 1. Using up/down arrows, highlight [No Log] and press enter.
3. Screen 2. Will show three drives your 8GB pendrive,your system drive andthe 1 TB external
drive. Highlight your system drive and pressenter to [Proceed].
4.Screen 3. Is [EFI GPT] highlighted? Move it to [Intel] for we want to analyse it as an MBR drive and
get the partitions. Press enter.
5. Screen4. [Analyse] press enter.
6. Screen 5. May show your current partition structure with a warning. That's Ok. Press enter. to do a
[Quick Search]
7.Screen 6. Allow the analysis to complete Do you now see your NTFS partitions now? At the bottom do you see the message " Structure OK blah blah......" Read the complete message and you will see - P to list files. Highlight the partition you want to list files and type capital P (Shift+P)
8. Screen7. Do you see the files in the partition? Select and copy those to the Recovery folder in the external. How to navigate and copy, I had already given the link explaining it herehttp://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385 and so I am not going to repeat.Repeat the above procedure to copy the files in other partitions too.
At any point you have a doubt take a snapshot ( you had already done it ) and quit Test Disk. Post the snapshot.
(When you want to quit TestDisk
1. You can repeatedly press Q in the keyboard till you get out of it.
2. Once out , push the reset button on your PC to boot into Windows.)
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In my trial, Partition Wizard found the MBR partitions in a Quick Scan itself and so did TestDisk. In your case PW required a deep scan and so also TestDisk may need to do a Deeper Search but surely it should find the MBR partitions as PW did.
So after Quick search in screen 5, the screen 6 may be different requiring a Deeper Search. Select Deeper Search and press enter.Just Like PW deepl scan, this deeper Search may take sometime. If in doubt post the snapshot for me to have a look.
So after Quick search in screen 5, the screen 6 may be different requiring a Deeper Search. Select Deeper Search and press enter.Just Like PW deepl scan, this deeper Search may take sometime. If in doubt post the snapshot for me to have a look.
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<<3. Screen 2. Will show three drives your 8GB pendrive,your system drive andthe 1 TB external
drive. Highlight your system drive and pressenter to [Proceed].>>>
In this step It is not showing my system drives...Only Pendrive and external hard disk
drive. Highlight your system drive and pressenter to [Proceed].>>>
In this step It is not showing my system drives...Only Pendrive and external hard disk
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OK, I anticipated this for both your system drive and external drive are 1.TB. Disk 80 is your 8GB pendrive . No problem.
Out of the other two it is easy to find out which is what. First select Disk81 and enter to [Proceeed] In the next screen if [EFIGPT] is highlighted that is your system drive on which you have to process further by moving the highlight to [Intel] and [Proceed].We want it to be analysed as an [Intel] MBR drive which it was before.
On the other hand if [Intel] Intel/PC partition is highlighted it is your MBR external drive. Go back and select the other GPT drive. (I am assuming that your external drive is an MBR drive. But you should know.That is why I asked you to find it out in my post #26 "a). Do you know whether your new 1TB external drive is an MBR drive or GPTdrive? If you do not know run Partition Wizard and check that it shows as a Basic MBR drive in disk map."
EDIT: From your Screenshot at post#30 it seems to be your external drive.TestDisk has already shown that one partition.
Always stop if you have a doubt. Do not proceed till you get an answer/instructions.
Out of the other two it is easy to find out which is what. First select Disk81 and enter to [Proceeed] In the next screen if [EFIGPT] is highlighted that is your system drive on which you have to process further by moving the highlight to [Intel] and [Proceed].We want it to be analysed as an [Intel] MBR drive which it was before.
On the other hand if [Intel] Intel/PC partition is highlighted it is your MBR external drive. Go back and select the other GPT drive. (I am assuming that your external drive is an MBR drive. But you should know.That is why I asked you to find it out in my post #26 "a). Do you know whether your new 1TB external drive is an MBR drive or GPTdrive? If you do not know run Partition Wizard and check that it shows as a Basic MBR drive in disk map."
EDIT: From your Screenshot at post#30 it seems to be your external drive.TestDisk has already shown that one partition.
Always stop if you have a doubt. Do not proceed till you get an answer/instructions.
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I selected disk 82 as assuming it will the system drive. When I clicked to proceed The [EFIGPT] was highlighted and I move it to intel/PC partition. Now It is anylising with deeper search and 55% done yet.
I did check the external was was MBR. I forgot to mention before.
I did check the external was was MBR. I forgot to mention before.
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Hi Jumanji,
That disk 82 was external drive and again I anylised the disk 81 and I can see my data there. Now I copied files and not understanding on which directory I should copy them. I mean I cant found the external drive. Here are the screenshots below.
That disk 82 was external drive and again I anylised the disk 81 and I can see my data there. Now I copied files and not understanding on which directory I should copy them. I mean I cant found the external drive. Here are the screenshots below.
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Could you see all your files?
Regarding how to reach the destination drive, you have to read the link I had given. ( Have you read it?)
Copying files listed by TestDisk during Recovery : http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385
You have to reach your destination external drive and the Recovery folder you had created there.( Have you created?)
For the time being go back and show me the screen showing the detected partitions with the partition you selected, and the files seen by you when you hit P(Shift+P). For this time I would advise you to select the last partition which I know does not contain any system files.( the first partition may contain your system files) I shall also try to do the recovery of my trial drive to a small pendrive ( I do not have an empty external drive) and then tell you.
But do not worry.If you can see your files you should be able to copy them.
Just show the above screens.
Regarding how to reach the destination drive, you have to read the link I had given. ( Have you read it?)
Copying files listed by TestDisk during Recovery : http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...suddenly-became-unllocated-3.html#post2395385
You have to reach your destination external drive and the Recovery folder you had created there.( Have you created?)
For the time being go back and show me the screen showing the detected partitions with the partition you selected, and the files seen by you when you hit P(Shift+P). For this time I would advise you to select the last partition which I know does not contain any system files.( the first partition may contain your system files) I shall also try to do the recovery of my trial drive to a small pendrive ( I do not have an empty external drive) and then tell you.
But do not worry.If you can see your files you should be able to copy them.
Just show the above screens.
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I read all your link files and understood but were not able to find the recovery folder in any drive. ( Shown the screen shots in last message.)
Yes I made a recovery folder in external drive. Below I'm attaching screenshot of the drives it show after deeper search. The selected one and last two have my data in them.
Yes I made a recovery folder in external drive. Below I'm attaching screenshot of the drives it show after deeper search. The selected one and last two have my data in them.
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You are copying files to the Directory C:/ - which is your pendrive containing the TestDisk - which is wrong. Can you not see it is mentioned as Directory C: / in the top of your last screenshot. That is where you are.
You should give the copy command only after reaching the Recovery Folder in the destination drive.
This is very well explained in my writeup on how to copy the files. ( Yep it is for TestDisk for Windows but the same applies to DOS )
I am happy that your files are listed. Try to reach the destination as explained above. Well, you have to just catch the trick to get there. Left arrow key to show your disks, up/down arrow key to select the drive. If the selected drive shows your Recovery folder you had created on the external HDD that is the destination drive.With up/down arrow key select the Recovery folder.Then in that select drwx. Press C - capital C (Shift+C) to copy.
EDIT: I had asked you to create a Recovery folder in the empty drive. that should help you to reach the recovery folder instead of just a directory ( the external HDD) .
You should give the copy command only after reaching the Recovery Folder in the destination drive.
This is very well explained in my writeup on how to copy the files. ( Yep it is for TestDisk for Windows but the same applies to DOS )
I am happy that your files are listed. Try to reach the destination as explained above. Well, you have to just catch the trick to get there. Left arrow key to show your disks, up/down arrow key to select the drive. If the selected drive shows your Recovery folder you had created on the external HDD that is the destination drive.With up/down arrow key select the Recovery folder.Then in that select drwx. Press C - capital C (Shift+C) to copy.
EDIT: I had asked you to create a Recovery folder in the empty drive. that should help you to reach the recovery folder instead of just a directory ( the external HDD) .
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