Hard drive partition recovery

[Sp33dFr33k]

Hard drive is showing as not formatted. Test Disk shows the partition and the only message is that the cylinder value "may" be incorrect.

I'm not that familiar with Test Disk but I wrote the partition info to the drive, wrote the boot sector and MFT. Drive still can't be read in Windows. All the data is there as I can read and recover it using GetDataBack but I would like to recover the partition or at least learn how.

Anyone with Test Disk experience, anything else I could do?

 

[malcolmputer]

I would recover the data off of it, and then re-initialize it with Windows.

Also, have you scanned the machine for viruses? A lot of them have been know to wipe the MBR/Partition table, just to mess with people.