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

 

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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