Recovering data from GPT drive/protective partition

wijcc · 3 May 2021 at 22:49

Hi all,

My GF's PC is having problems booting up, I tried doing a windows 10 start up repair to no avail. Unfortunately she does not have any restore points, recovery or backups of her data. I have taken her HDD out and using a USB adapter connected to my laptop. The drive comes up as a GPT Protective partition in Disk Management. Is there any way I can recover files from this HDD? I will put a new SSD drive in her machine and reinstall everything, but need to recover her old data off the old HDD. Can anyone offer any advice/suggestions? I am using a windows 10 laptop if it makes any difference and the HDD had windows 10 on it too.

Thanks in advance guys

watercooledman · 3 May 2021 at 23:29

Use ubuntu

Murphy · 4 May 2021 at 09:07

Is the system you've plugged it into using a UEFI BIOS?

wijcc · 4 May 2021 at 10:25

Yes, it comes up as healthy GPT Protective partition in Disk Management.
Her PC is a HP AIO, with a 16 GB PCIe NVMe 3D Xpoint M.2 Solid State and 2TB HDD. If that makes any difference??

Murphy · 4 May 2021 at 11:48

You could try using something like DiskGenius (portable version) to see if selecting the partition and then the files tab allows you to access the files, if not it maybe something to do with this. (essentially the bridge chip either not being able to handle +2TB drives or maybe doing some translation.)

wijcc · 4 May 2021 at 12:32

Having a bit more luck after plugging the drive into desktop PC (internal sata cables) and using a data recovery program. Scanning the drive to try recovering files currently. Thanks for the pointers guys