Sunday, March 20, 2016

boot - Windows 7 is not accessible or can't be repaired after installing Ubuntu 11.10 using live USB

I've messed things up a bit.


I was running Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit in my HP laptop. I was using live USB of Ubuntu 11.10 and then I tried to install Ubuntu on hard disk using the same live USB.


To install Ubuntu, I chose 50 GB free partition and 325 GB swap space or something.


While installing Ubuntu, my pen-drive came out and everything stopped. Then I booted again using the pen-drive and finished installation of Ubuntu.


Now the problem is I can't access my Windows partition as they were in extended partition plus I am not able to boot Windows 7 from the booting screen and I can't even repair or recover it.


Whenever I try to boot Windows it shows the message HARDWARE INACCESSIBLE, TRY TO REPAIR YOUR WINDOWS USING DISC. When I tried using disc, there was no instance of OS available to repair.


I can't even install fresh Windows 7 as the setup asks me to load drivers of Hard disk.


I have important data in the Windows root drive as well as in other partitions. How can I recover that data?

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