OK, I did what you said and I now have Windows 10 back up and running on the SSD.

After I did that, I had a brainwave: When I got that SSD new, I cloned my old HDD C drive to it, and formatted the...

OK, so my next question is how do I get Windows back onto the drive? And thank you very much for everything you did to help me.

Sorry for the delay getting back to you, work has kept me too busy to deal with this the last few days.

I ran the rebuild boot sector option and the results page was identical to when I did the...

The GDB scan ended with the following error:
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TestDisk gave me this result - both the boot sector and backup boot sector are bad:
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Thanks for explaining how to properly change the partition. It is now set to NTFS. GDB now recognises it as NTFS also, and it's currently scanning. I'll come back with the results.

dalchina Here is the result of the Puran File Recovery scan. Note, it says to try a deep scan on the results screen, but when I opened the software it told me that since the drive is RAW, deep and...

I set the SSD to inactive using the diskpart commands, and rebooted. I started another Getdataback scan, and this is what it looks like while running.
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Edit: I'll also try Dalchina's...

GetdataBack does see the drive and lets me scan it, but all the way through the scan it finds 0 files. This is what it looks like when I open the software, before doing any scan:
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And here...

jumanji

My cable finally arrived. I did the scan as instructed and it found 0 files. This is what I'm shown after the scan:

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OK, I'll report back once the cable arrives and I've done what you suggested.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help me.

I had done a quick scan, you're correct.

I just completed a full scan, and no additional partitions are shown. Still nothing happens if I double click where you told me to, whether it is ticked...

Ok, cool, sleep well :)

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The scan finished. You told me to double click underneath where it says "label", but nothing happens when I do that...

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I'll try to explain better. The PC was originally bought in 2013 as OEM from an online company. But since buying it, I have replaced every internal component. So it now has an MSI motherboard, but it...

Hi jumanji

Thanks for replying! I originally bought the PC online in 2013. OEM. But every single component apart from the case has been upgraded since - it originally had an ASUS motherboard and...

I'll give that a shot, thank you.




OK, thanks for the info. I actually only upgraded to 10 from 8.1 around a month ago, so yes I am still unfamiliar with a lot of the ways 10 works.

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I have a Sata to USB cable on its way to me.

If that is the case then my next problem is how do I reinstall Windows? I don't have a way that I know of to get my Windows key...

Here's the result of the Superscan option. It also generated a .scn file, which I don't know how to open:

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Currently scanning with Active Partition Recovery. 25% done and it hasn't found a single file yet, so I suppose this isn't looking good...

If I connect the drive to the laptop, will it be able to see the data on it? I don't mean the OS, just my personal files.

I ran Recuva for the hell of it, to see if it would at least scan the drive, and it says "C:: Unable to determine file system type".

I'm currently running the MiniTool Digital Media Recovery...

What I mean is, the instructions for Recuva say to remove the drive and slave it to another machine. I can't slave it to the other machine (a laptop) until I have the necessary cable to connect it...

Unfortunately I can't use Recuva until I'm able to connect my SSD to the laptop...

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I restarted the PC, and now it just beeps 3 times and doesn't boot at all! No BSOD, just...

Interesting. I do have a sata to USB cable on the way. Until that arrives, I have no way of making my SSD a slave on another computer (my gf's laptop is what I'm using to post here).

As for disk...

I'm running the scan again so that I can get a screengrab of it. It'll take a while. But I do remember that under File System it remains blank.


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