Remount Drive partitions

[Gravity14]

I installed Ubuntu alongside Windows 7 and unmounted a drive in the partition manager there and when i restarted my PC i am only able to access my recovery partition only on which my PC boots nd only cmd is available...

I used A few commands in cmd abit 'mountvol' nd it is displaying 3 of my volumes.

Any help please? I dont want to loose my data at any cost... =(

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello Gravity14, welcome to Seven Forums!


The method outlined in this tutorial at the link below shows how to copy-out the data you need to save to external media.

How to Copy & Paste in Recovery Console on Windows 7 or Vista

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[Gravity14]

No luck, only 1 drive appear here and when clicked it says to format...
I used the Ubuntu to recover the data but only C drive the windows drive is accesible, Other drive with the data doesn mount.

Plus i dont want to loose my windows installation, it came with the laptop :/

 

[theog]

[quoote]Plus i dont want to loose my windows installation, it came with the laptop :/

We always assume you have made your Recovery Disks using the OEM manufacturer's app the first day you had your new PC.
& made the Startup Repair CD.

Try Rescue kit:
Rescue Kit Free Edition | PARAGON Software Group - free partition software, hard disk partitioning

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello again, have a look through the information presented in this tutorial at the link below and be sure to post back with any further questions you may have and to keep us informed.

Clean Install : Factory COA Activation Key


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If you choose to go this way, I would suggest you completely wipe secure erase the entire Hard Disk Drive to over-write the old Linux code, that code, especially the Grub loader is a real issue sometime to overcome and a wipe may save you some time in the long-run.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Additional Secure Erase / Wipe Information


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[gregrocker]

Would you like to try repair it now, or have you gone on to run Recovery or reinstall?

If you want to attempt repairs and you don't have the Win7 installation DVD, you'll need to make a Win7 Repair CD in the Backup center on any Win7 machine of the same bit version.

Boot the DVD Repair console or Repair CD, see if it finds an installation to Repair. Next click through to System Recovery Options list, choose Startup Repair, run repeatedly.

Report back results and any error messages received verbatim.

 

[Gravity14]

Thank you so much guys for the support, i really really appreciate it.

I ran the startup repair a couple time, almost 3 times, once it said to restart and check, twice it said it could not be repaired. Tests were of arnd 30 to 45 min

Earlier i wasnt able to access when i used to do C:/ but now it becomes accessible in cmd. but it does not list any directories or files, shows free space.

I think there is some mount issues i have to do with to make the partition accessed by Windows.

I did this tutorial to change the Boot in cmd

• bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
• c:
• cd boot
• attrib bcd -s -h -r
• ren c:\boot\bcd bcd.old
• bootrec /RebuildBcd

Its showing \Boot\BCD doesn exist

 

[theog]

[quoote]Plus i dont want to loose my windows installation, it came with the laptop :/

We always assume you have made your Recovery Disks using the OEM manufacturer's app the first day you had your new PC.
& made the Startup Repair CD.

Try Rescue kit:
Rescue Kit Free Edition | PARAGON Software Group - free partition software, hard disk partitioning

Did you try to remount with Paragon.

 

[gregrocker]

If remounting fails (why did you dismount the drive anyway?) then boot free Partition Wizard bootable CD
use Partition Recovery Wizard to scan for and recover the lost partitions.

Mark Win7 partition Active.

Next click on HD to highlight, then from Disk tab select Rebuild MBR, Apply steps.

If this fails to start Win7, run 3 Startup Repairs from Repair CD again.

Unfortunately Linux on the same HD can make Win7 irreparable. We see it all the time here.

 

[Gravity14]

Nothing worked. ****ing Ubuntu!!
I am redoing my PC from scratch. *sigh*

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Then have a look through this information.


If you want to completely wipe, over-write the entire Hard Disk Drive of any possible malware infection and / or to get the best possible space to do the install to or just for security purposes, have a look at these tutorials.

SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation

Secure Erase / Wipe : Definition and Methods

Additional Secure Erase / Wipe Information

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[gregrocker]

Tips for getting a perfect clean reinstall based on hundreds done here - use the ones which apply: Reinstalling Windows 7

It's always best to put another OS on a separate HD booted via BIOS only, which keeps HD's independent to come and go as you please.

 

[theog]

All Linux code must be deleted using the CLEAN ALL command.As you have had linux on the HD you need do a Clean all & full format.

Do a full clean & full format in command prompt.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/91339-ssd-hdd-optimize-windows-reinstallation.html

 

[Gravity14]

Thank you so much guys for the effort. I really appreciate it. =)

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Use the seporate dual boot method from now on so there will be no boot issues with Grub in future.

   Note

The easiest way to do away with boot issues between separate Operating Systems (OS) is to use the BIOS one time boot menu to select which OS to boot at system startup, each motherboard has an individual hot-key to tap during system start-up to access this menu.

If you have 2 separate Hard Disk Drives (HDD) and have one OS installed to one HDD and you want to install another OS to the second HDD, disconnect the HDD with the first OS installed on it and leave only the HDD you want to install the second OS to connected.
Install the second OS to the connected HDD and when complete and the system is booting good, power down and reconnect the first HDD with the first OS on it.

This way the OSs will boot independently of each other and there will be no boot conflicts between the 2 separate OSs to have to sort later.

Then set the BIOS to boot the HDD / OS you want as default and if you want to start the other (new) OS you use the BIOS one-time boot menu to select that HDD / OS to start when the PC is started.

• Asus - F8
• HP/Compaq - Esc
• Sony - F2
• Acer – F12
• Gateway - F10
• eMachnes - F10
• Gigabyte – F12
• Toshiba - F12
• Dell - F12