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Re: [LUG] rescuing data from windows 8 acer machine with efi boot

 
i can't take drive out still under warranty hoping acer will fix the windows 8 problems (saves me the effort and money of friend)
The actually message when booting up is "ERROR: no boot disk has been detected or he disk has failed" maybe he got a hardware problem with the 1tb drive in it. It def acer job to fix , only 6 months old at the most.

tried boot repair disk live cd not booting for some reason using 64bit as machine is
he says nothing happened to the computer just been on the desk other day he switched it on and that error message above.
yeah windows 8.

mark



On 14 October 2013 11:55, Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 14/10/2013 11:16, Mark Croft wrote:
friend here in exmouth his ace x600 machine has decided to nuke the hard
drive somehow it booting up with No Operating System found probably lost
its MBR correct?

for now i am just trying to get the data (pics,etc) from his windows
hard drive but linux will not see it when i boot a live cd (linux mint 15)

I have switched off all the efi stuff in the bios found that info the
web but can't seem to find out how to get it too see the hard drive?

thanks for you help

raspbery pi jam was good.

mark


Can you take the drive out and bung it in another machine?

Does the drive get detected? (anything in dmesg?)

What output do you get from "fdisk -l"? (it may complain about it being a GPT disk).

What output do you get from "parted -l"? (parted supports GPT partition layouts which IIRC Windows 8 and UEFI uses).

How exactly has he nuked the disk?  I dropped my laptop on the floor the other week which killed the drive, it wasn't even detected in the BIOS after that. :-(

I presume it's Windows 8 machine?

Rob

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