Alright, I managed to recover the files I desired, and as I type this am retrieving the rest of C: drive's folders using TestDisk. Hopefully everything is recovered fine and dandy. Thank you so much for your help!
Remaining steps:
- moving partition to the left somehow (Gparted can do that, but there will be 1mb allocated still there that is unmovable)
- changing GPT to MBR, or some method that will make the disk bootable
- changing its filesystem to NTFS
- running chkdsk, then chkdsk /f
>>777569>- there's no way to know how long the image is, other than remembering. Because you didn't write to a filesystem, you've got no metadataI have these two partitions found during a Quick Analysis of the drive using TestDisk. I am not sure what the lost partitions in picture (B) and (C2/D2) are supposed to be. Sector numbers are given, but I don't think I'll be needing them (?).
>- there's no easy way to get at your image, because most OSes don't read datastreams written directly into partitionsYou mean recovery of individual files and folders? I managed to do that with TestDisk, but it's a bummer that I cannot access it from File Explorer (yet).
For now I am considering moving the partition on Disk 2 to the left to cover the unallocated 16mb space. I'm thinking of using either of the commercial options to do this (MiniTool, AOMEI), but worried about botnets, backdoors, or unreliability.
>- If you'd written like 5% more data you could have got the whole drive, including the partition table and boot sector.Sorry I did not understand. What did you mean by this?
>>777572It's fine desu. I'll perform a chkdsk /f on the laptop drive if it is successful on the copied drive. If the laptop drive dies, then I can be at peace that it has "done its' duty". I don't want to get another drive and put it inside the laptop. If chkdsk ends up successful (doubtful) then I will keep it as a backup laptop or use it every now and then for nostalgia, assuming it will last long enough (lol).
