GPT HDD - Corrupt MFT
I have a new (refurbished) laptop that I was creating ATIH 2014 Premium images for. I directed the image to be saved on my D: partition. When saving, Acronis informed me that the file couldn't be saved...wrong format or filename or location. It did this once or twice, but allowed me eventually to save the image to that location. The images validated fine, and I even restored the OS partition and it worked fine.
Subsequent attempts to save an image to the same directory on the same partition failed. I lost the D:\ partition. It's listed as RAW. I have not tried PW's Partition repair. There were also laptop system recovery partitions that were lost.
This laptop has win 8.0 x64 on it and it is UEFI.
I took the drive out and successfully imaged & validated from a drive dock in another machine. I imaged the whole disk (all partitions, even the lost and hidden ones). I restarted windows 7 on the machine I was using to image the notebook drive and windows informed me that the MFT was corrupted. Windows could not fix it.
I've posted a few images that may help your understanding of the parition mess.
Anyway, I don't really need the recovery partitions. As far as I'm concerned, if I could just restore the OS partition and the system partition, I would be happy. I'll then partition the rest of the drive as I need to.
So, the question FINALLY is, given that this disk is from a win 8 x64 UEFI system:
As in image 2 below, can I just reformat the entire drive and restore the ATI image (with C [EFI] and D:[OS partition] as per image 2) and be OK?
Or even just delete the other partitions and keep the OS partition and system partition (I guess that would be the EFI partition...?)?
What is best way to go here guys?
Thanks you very much for your help.
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Sorry for the late response. Yes, chkdsk couldn't repair the partition. I came to suspect that Partition Wizard had a special interpretation of the GPT partitions. Even Disk Director 11 (latest build) had some issues, as, I think ATI (2014 prem) did also.
I wound up deleting and recreating the partition that was lost and turned RAW, and all seems well now.
As far as drive health, it passed both the short and long test in Seatools. I've had the system up and running for a few days now with no ill effects.
Thanks for your help.
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