My hard drive in my Lenovo Y580 laptop failed and got the click of death a few days ago. I could not start my computer up because it said 'No bootable device'.
I made an image of the hard drive and tried TestDisk on it. It said "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged". I tried 'Deeper search' as well, which found nothing.
I tried using chkdsk as well, and it said "Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted".
Currently I'm going through the image with PhotoRec, which sucks because there are a huge number of files which aren't titled, some are incomplete/broken, none have the right dates etc.
I have read one guy who recreated the 'partition maps' using fdisk because he knew them. Will that work and if so how do I do it?
By the way, I'm aware I was dumb not to keep it backed up so I will not benefit from being told this.
I made an image of the hard drive and tried TestDisk on it. It said "Can't open filesystem. Filesystem seems damaged". I tried 'Deeper search' as well, which found nothing.
I tried using chkdsk as well, and it said "Unable to determine volume version and state. CHKDSK aborted".
Currently I'm going through the image with PhotoRec, which sucks because there are a huge number of files which aren't titled, some are incomplete/broken, none have the right dates etc.
I have read one guy who recreated the 'partition maps' using fdisk because he knew them. Will that work and if so how do I do it?
By the way, I'm aware I was dumb not to keep it backed up so I will not benefit from being told this.