mbr chaos

[Eatz]

trying to boot this ssd in an old hp laptop so i can pull data off of it.
this results in an infinite flashing underscore
plugged in a windows media usb and went into command prompt and ran a few commands
/rebuildbcd results in saying it succesfully found one but then when it asks to add to boot list and i say yes i get "the requested system device cannot be found"
running list part under diskpart results in this
partition 1 is 499mb and listed as recovery
partition 2 is 100mb and listed as system
partition 3 is 16mb and listed as reserved
partition 4 is 167gb and listed as primary
attempting to set any of these as active results in something along the lines of "the selected disk is not a fixed mbr disk"
and what ive said here is only a small percentage of everything ive tried.
so does anybody know what the hecc is going on?

[NinJake]

If you ever need to recover data the first thing you need to do is leave the target disk alone. You could clone the disk to keep an original and then have one to mess with but it depends on how critical/important it is to have the data recovered.

 

Use another operating system and attach the drive to access the data.

 

If it is indeed important, use back ups or contact a professional data recovery business. It won't be cheap.

[Applefreak]

1 minute ago, NinJake said:

If you ever need to recover data the first thing you need to do is leave the target disk alone. You could clone the disk to keep an original and then have one to mess with but it depends on how critical/important it is to have the data recovered.

 

Use another operating system and attach the drive to access the data.

 

If it is indeed important, use back ups or contact a professional data recovery business. It won't be cheap.

Agreed, don't try to boot off the drive you want to pull data from. If you don't have space inside your pc or you have a laptop yourself, get a USB HDD adapter and plug it in. You should then be able top copy all the important stuff off the drive. Good luck

[Eatz]

3 minutes ago, NinJake said:

If you ever need to recover data the first thing you need to do is leave the target disk alone. You could clone the disk to keep an original and then have one to mess with but it depends on how critical/important it is to have the data recovered.

 

Use another operating system and attach the drive to access the data.

 

If it is indeed important, use back ups or contact a professional data recovery business. It won't be cheap.

i have a copy and the data isnt lost id just like to boot on this laptop

[NinJake]

Just now, Eatz said:

i have a copy and the data isnt lost id just like to boot on this laptop

I'd just reinstall windows and copy the data over then.

[Eatz]

Just now, NinJake said:

I'd just reinstall windows and copy the data over then.

i dont have another ssd to do that with nor do i have a pc with 2 open drive bays, my main pc is itx. i do hdd to ssd os swaps for laptops and pcs regularly so maybe its time i get a 2bay usb c sata drive dock

 

[NinJake]

You take a flash drive and get the windows media creation tool installed on it. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) Boot from the flash drive while your disk is in the pc, install windows and target the drive that's giving you problems. This will wipe it/reformat but then since you have the data backed up you can once again use external drive/flash drive to move data back over. Its ~150gb of data, not terabytes worth so it shouldn't take long.

[Eatz]

3 minutes ago, NinJake said:

You take a flash drive and get the windows media creation tool installed on it. (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) Boot from the flash drive while your disk is in the pc, install windows and target the drive that's giving you problems. This will wipe it/reformat but then since you have the data backed up you can once again use external drive/flash drive to move data back over. Its ~150gb of data, not terabytes worth so it shouldn't take long.

i dont have a thumb drive big enough, theres 0bytes free on this drive i filled it all the way up.

[NinJake]

But where do you have the data backed up?

 

15 minutes ago, Eatz said:

i have a copy and the data isnt lost

 

[Eatz]

Just now, NinJake said:

But where do you have the data backed up?

 

 

i have a nas