Data Recovery from a crashed and accidentally merged partitions

[Clara Doe]

Hi friends,

Yesterday my laptop crashed and when I try to reinstall the windows the process stopped after I format the c: drive for fresh installation. The errors I got was as follows after I restart the installation

A. Can not install from the old recovery partition.

B. 0xc000000f

C. No usb drive was their to install

D. your old partition was MBR and you need to install GPT

So I ask a expert to solve the issue. He remove the HDD from laptop and put tht hdd into a external usb casing.

He show me tht all partitions are merged and we have to check whether the data can be recoverd or not. He called me today and said tht the data can be recovered but the amount he ask was too much, nearly $400.

Can any one tell me what could have happened with my drive.

And can the data be recovered?

its a 1tb hdd seagate

UEFI Bios, laptop make asus,

 

[lonewolf7]

Yes data can be recovered from the drive, if the drive itself is not faulty or if it can be seen on BIOS. Do you have access to a Desktop PC ? If so then, put the drive into the PC as a second HDD( you can change the order of drive(s) to boot under BIOS). Now simply copy and paste the data to PC's HDD from Lappy's HDD. You are done with recovering data.

 

[Clara Doe]

I tried tht but the hdd shows 1 blank partition only. I again try to boot it from another usb drive (ntfs) and it start showing 3 blank partitions of 219 gb, 350 gb, 350 gb respectively with 153 gb non allocated space.

Another expert who checked the hdd today said it is not possible tht hdd shows different partition sizes or non allocated space. But the the guy who saw the laptop yesterday still says he can recover all data.

I even try to fatch the data by boot the machine wia ubantu loaded on usb

 

[lonewolf7]

Did you tried the method with a PC (Desktop) ?