I am having a single 450GB drive on my laptop PC. I tried to shrink it using third party app "Minitool partition wizard" as the default disk management tool was saying "Not enough space available to shrink" even after the space was available. I restarted the PC as it asked to do so. The partitioning was going on Black screen(DOS like) and suddenly it stopped, attempted to restart but error occured as the system wasn't able to access boot files.(can't access winload.exe, error 0xc000000f)
After this i booted into Ubuntu via live USB and even it is not able to access that ntfs partition(showing error sign in gparted too).
After this I tried to access file explorer from advanced startup(using command prompt, taskmanager) but nothing happening at all.
I had created restore point before doing all this but it is not found by system now.
I even tried to reset my PC but there is a problem there too(error was not mentioned).
So I googled it and I can say what 'partition tool wizard' did to my PC is, it was trying to move some data from one location to another and in all this it moved the system files too and now nothing can be accessed on all of that drive. I had all of my data on that C:/ drive and i want to recover my data atleast.
System configurations:
HP 15-d103tx notebook PC.
OS: Window 10 pro (latest build)
Your best bet is to remove the hard drive and move it to another functioning computer to recover the data at a byte level. The data itself will be fine even if the partition table is corrupted (assuming you weren't using full hard drive encryption).
Once you've backed up your data, then do a low-level format on the drive and a fresh install of your desired OS.
The alternative is byte-level modification of the partition table, which is ugly, has a low success rate, and may screw up your data further. Best to not attempt it and get your data off the drive while it's still there.
UPDATE:
If the file system is completely corrupt and standard file recovery programs like Testdisk
don't work, the best bet is to use PhotoRec to access the files directly at a byte level, ignoring the corrupt partitions/file systems.
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