hard drive corruption

[itzikel]

i upgraded from windows 7 to 10 in middle i suddenly got a bsod error code 0x000000f which basically means cant find operating system, i booted to a acronis backup cd and checked the disc management which showed that the main partition which contains the os AND all my files (yes my mistake) doesn't have a file system and it is only showing me the size of the file but not if its full or empty etc. doesnt give me any info. is there anything i can do to get the info out of there or is it lost forever and the only thing i can do is a clean install of windows
thanks

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there itzikel,

That is really unpleasant. 🙁

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like you have many options. You just need to scan the drive with a data recovery tool.

You can use one for DOS mode, as your system can't boot.
If you take the drive out and attach it to another system as a secondary one, you can try to access it right away. If this doesn't work, you will need to use some OS data recovery tool: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-1644496/lost-data-recovery.html

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD

 

[johnbl]

look on each partition on the drive, sometimes the drive letters get reassigned and the boot loader looks at the wrong place.
for example the reserved partiton might become logical drive c: then the windows partition might be drive d: or e: depending on if you have another drive on your system.


generally if this is the case, you can use the bootrec.exe commands to fix this.
http://www.digitalcitizen.life/command-prompt-fix-issues-your-boot-records

you have to boot on a disk and run
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot
bootrec.exe /scanos
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd


I think the scan for the operating system (/scanos) option it the one that would fix the problem.
but most people would runt them all (it should not really hurt)

i upgraded from windows 7 to 10 in middle i suddenly got a bsod error code 0x000000f which basically means cant find operating system, i booted to a acronis backup cd and checked the disc management which showed that the main partition which contains the os AND all my files (yes my mistake) doesn't have a file system and it is only showing me the size of the file but not if its full or empty etc. doesnt give me any info. is there anything i can do to get the info out of there or is it lost forever and the only thing i can do is a clean install of windows
thanks