OS: Win7 x64 Professional
tl;dr: Get my drive un-reformatted.
I did a Quick Format in Disk Management, and I need to restore it to the normal file structure.
I don't have any recent system restore points. It all started when I noticed that there were two drives when there were supposed to be one in My Computer. One was the normal drive where all the files and Windows installation are stored, and the other drive had a different letter and was labeled System Reserved and had 100MB of space allocated. It was a partition of the main drive. One article I read said that the System Reserved drive is only used if you utilize BitLocker, which I do not. The article said the volume could be safely deleted from Disk Manager. I deleted the volume from disk manager, but there were still two partitions. I rebooted to make sure everything still worked, but it would no longer boot from that drive. So I followed more instructions from the Internet that said to format the 100MB partition and label it System Reserved, and from there I planned to copy-paste the files I'd copied off the drive prior to the deletion. What that ended up doing was renaming both partitions (despite being told from multiple sources it would only do it to the selected partition), and started to format the entire larger partition of the drive. I immediately closed Disk Manager, but the file directory had already been changed, and the drive contents couldn't be accessed from a completely different hard drive I'm using now. We used testdisk to restore write-capability to the System Reserved partition, and to make it appear as a separate drive from the larger portion, and now shows up as 98.9MB instead of 100MB. I copy-pasted the files back from the emergency backup windows bootable drive to the System Reserved partition. The goal now is to restore the file directory for the main drive so that the contents are accessible from any other drive booting into Windows, and restoring the System Reserved partition back the way it was before deleting the System Reserved partition. Do you know how to get the file structure and bootability back?
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tl;dr: Get my drive un-reformatted.
I did a Quick Format in Disk Management, and I need to restore it to the normal file structure.
I don't have any recent system restore points. It all started when I noticed that there were two drives when there were supposed to be one in My Computer. One was the normal drive where all the files and Windows installation are stored, and the other drive had a different letter and was labeled System Reserved and had 100MB of space allocated. It was a partition of the main drive. One article I read said that the System Reserved drive is only used if you utilize BitLocker, which I do not. The article said the volume could be safely deleted from Disk Manager. I deleted the volume from disk manager, but there were still two partitions. I rebooted to make sure everything still worked, but it would no longer boot from that drive. So I followed more instructions from the Internet that said to format the 100MB partition and label it System Reserved, and from there I planned to copy-paste the files I'd copied off the drive prior to the deletion. What that ended up doing was renaming both partitions (despite being told from multiple sources it would only do it to the selected partition), and started to format the entire larger partition of the drive. I immediately closed Disk Manager, but the file directory had already been changed, and the drive contents couldn't be accessed from a completely different hard drive I'm using now. We used testdisk to restore write-capability to the System Reserved partition, and to make it appear as a separate drive from the larger portion, and now shows up as 98.9MB instead of 100MB. I copy-pasted the files back from the emergency backup windows bootable drive to the System Reserved partition. The goal now is to restore the file directory for the main drive so that the contents are accessible from any other drive booting into Windows, and restoring the System Reserved partition back the way it was before deleting the System Reserved partition. Do you know how to get the file structure and bootability back?
Please think before you post.