I can't browse to the main partition, but fdsik -l shows both partitions. It can now see and mount the PQSERVICE recovery partition. Even though it wasn't working completely, I wrote the partitions to disk. Filesystem seems damaged." I switch the main drive to primary bootable. The "p" command allowed me to view files in the recovery partition, but gave an error for the main partition "Can't open filesystem. The deeper search showed the same results. The quick search found the 2 real NTFS partitions, and appeared to have the size correct. Ran testdisk (Intel option NO to Vista partition question) which originally showed 4 nonsensical, overlapping partitions. It said there was no boot disk, as if the hard drive wasn't connected. I held the power button down to reboot, and when it came back up, the BIOS started looping through alternate boot options. I was writing in a web form (Chrome) when the netbook locked instantly and completely (no pointer movement ctr-alt-del did nothing). I don't have access to an external drive enclosure for now. The master boot record seems to be problematic.Īcer Aspire One AOD150 netbook in original configuration. Nothing I do seems to recognize a file system on the main partition. Hitachi hardware diagnostics check out fine. Testdisk recreated the partitions, but can't read from the main one. Only the 6GB recovery partition is mountable, and appears to be fine. There were two partitions on the disk, an Acer installed recovery partition and my main XP one. I have an netbook hard drive that won't boot or be mounted and is refusing to cooperate in my debugging.
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