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

My post #11:

jumanji said:

Oooppps ... @Jesse Williams, that is not the original partition structure of a DELL Laptop. It has been modified by your friend and shows 3 Ext partitions. That complicates the whole issue. It could be that those modifications made the laptop unbootable. I also do not see any overlapping partitions.

While you can try to restore the partitions- if possible - there is no guarantee that that laptop will be bootable. So I will only give general instructions how to restore the partitions........

Your post #59 much much later:

Jesse Williams said:

I installed a Linux utility trying to fix the partitions. But I don’t remember installing Linux. The utility I downloaded said it also worked with Windows. As far as checking the drive details, I am letting it scan again. It froze up and wouldn’t do anything. We shall see what it finds after this scan. However, it couldn’t pull up any data when I tried to access it. It did yesterday, however. Would that be because it was set to GPT instead of MBR?

Hi @Jesse Williams; Whatever Linux utility you installed, had infact installed Linux, or so I would believe now. That has killed the original partition structure overwriting it. It would have been better, had you sought help here straightaway without trying anything on your own.

We will now make a last-ditch effort to dig out the original partition structure with a prayer .

Rerun Partition Wizard 9 from the bootable pendrive. Take a snapshot of how the HDD looks like in it - the very first screen that appears as soon as you launch it. Proceed with Partition Recovery. Instead of Quick Scan, select Full Scan. It would normally take a longtime than a Quick Scan. At the end of Full Scan post a snapshot of the Partitions found.

I thank Caledon Ken, SIW2, Bree and others for chipping in and request them to standby and give their opinion when the above snapshots are available. ( In this extraordinary mess, many heads are better than one. Now it will be a jury that will decide )