Off Topic for Win 10: Windows 7 Corrupted Partiiton Table & Hard Drive

No it is not your fault.

Did you install Linux or just boot from Linux. Once a drive is in trouble or worst you don't want to write to it. Things get written over.

Honestly, I never been able to recover data from a drive that has died.

Easy enough to get data from one that is dying but once they are gone, in my experience, they are gone.

When I teach seniors I equate AV's to a house alarm and backups to an insurance policy.

I'll bet there is not one machine in your aunt's work place that hasn't failed. ( and she probably does maintenance on the critical ones.) A computer a machine.

It is not if it will fail, it is when it will fail.

Then absolutely .... NO !!

As I said before, way back, user fault. No back ups, no documentation, no recovery media.

You are doing exactly what we would all do, get it working again and train the user.

You should offer to audit her systems. Where is documentation for each system, do we have recovery media, how often is machine being backed up, is the frequency appropriate, where are backups be stored.

Well done !!

I know of no way to correct a corrupted file.

Jesse you can't repair corrupted files. You need to know what the data was before the corruption.

Even windows repairs corrupted files by copying in known good versions.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.