Hardware :: Windows 7 Killed Hard Drive?
Mar 6, 2010
EDIT : Solved? (Sorry if this is the location for this thread or if someone else already made a thread about this but I tried Googling this ever since it happened with no relevant results IMO so yea.Also sorry if this post sounds trollish / ect. but the fact that I lost the original version of this post due to the website logging me out kinda changed my attitude ATM... Besides, this one is shorter :/)
About a week ago (2/28/10) I went to install Windows 7 (CURSE YOU MICROSOFT!!!) and my damn comp froze during the formating process. So I then went ahead and shut down my comp like an idiot and tried rebooting with the install disk for it to only show the Windows 7 startup animation screen When booting without the disk all I get is some sort of Grub installation with no bootlist Afterwards I went ahead and booted my Fedora 12 LXDE Live-CD and ran Gparted, which tells me that there are 156 hard drives (or Partitions?) on my comp, labeled /dev/sda, /dev/sda100, /dev/sda101 - /dev/sda255 most with just unpartitioned space and every third hard drive / partition containing an EXT4 partition consisting of around 148.32GB of space...
All the file browsers I've tried using (LXDE's pcmanfm, GNOME's Nautilus, and Windows XP's Explorer (yea, makes no sense why if 99.999% of the partitions were Linux partitions...)) do not even seem to acknowledge it's existence, let alone allow access to whatever partitions might have survived the event.
So my Question[s] is this : Can my files be restored? If so then How? If not then how am I supposed to format my Hard drive and get the damn thing working correctly? (since Gparted thinks my single hard drive = 156 hard drives >_>)
Anyhow, theres no rush as I've been running off of Live-CD for the past week or so but in any case it would be nice if I could get my files back or at least have a working hard drive to use if all is lost Trying to get uncertainty out of the equation - Should I pull teh plug?
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(Screen Shot Attached in .jpeg format)
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Code:
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