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Problem description: So, a few days ago, my 7-yr-old laptop went rogue and kept rebooting into an infinite Aptio Utility loop, not recognizing how to boot into Windows. The machine had been freezing up and getting errors constantly throughout the year so I figured, it's on its deathbed, extracted the HDD, and bought a new laptop. After hooking up the HDD to an enclosure in an effort to recover what I could from the old hard drive, I realized that 80 gigs of the 1TB HD were unanswered for: there was a D and an E drive, but the 80-gig C-drive partition was completely gone. Attempted fixes: Not visible in Disk Mgmt, not Unallocated Space; nothing. The C-Drive was where Windows 10 resided in---would I be wrong in assuming the HDD have a meltdown and as a result, the partition with my OS got wiped in the aftermath? I'd be pretty bummed out if that's the case since I had some mildly important stuff on that partition. Kind of weird if that's what happened, but I can't think of any other explanation.
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Aug 28, 2020 19:47
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DLC Inc posted:...would I be wrong in assuming the HDD have a meltdown and as a result, the partition with my OS got wiped in the aftermath? I doubt it was fully wiped. Usually if something like that disappears it means that the MBR got damaged and the OS can't see the partition properly. You could try some kind of data recovery tool to see if it can find the C partition: https://www.journaldev.com/36900/top-best-linux-data-recovery-tools Also, running CDI will show if your HDD is damaged: https://osdn.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/downloads/73507/CrystalDiskInfo8_8_1.exe/
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