mbr repair and/or Invalid partiton repair or recovery help.

[thomasalan]

yesterday i used a software called east-tech eraser 2010 on my winows 7 x64 pc to wipe 2 flash drives at the same time, i recieved a error during a wipe of one of the drives, i hit cancel. everything was fine the rest of the night i used the computer for several hours after that with no issues.

This morning i started up my computer and i got the black screen Invalid partition.

i inserted the windows 7 x64 disk and ran startup repair, there are 2 options at this point.
Option 1. Use recovery tools that can help fix probleums starting Windows.
Select an operating sytem to repair.

Option 2. restore your computer useing a system image that you created earlier.

unfortunetly there are no operating systems shown in the list to select for repair. Its just blank.

the screen also says, If your operating system isn't listed, click Load drivers and then install drivers for your hard disks.
I do have my motherboard driver disk i assume this is what i am supposed to do? i have not done this option yet i want to learn more before i take any further actions.

earlier i did use the first option, the recovery tools option even though there was no os listed to select. this resulted in a message saying mbr is corrupt.

what are my options to recover data or possibly fix this? now when i start up the computer i get Invalid partition message on black screen.

what software can i use for free or get a license for for free to burn to a bootable disk or flash drive?

I have never had to repair mbr or invalid partition so i am unsure what action to take, my only experience with partition software is paragon softwares, i do have licenses for several paragon products in my paragon account i have gotten in various free offers, i have hard disk manager and partition licenses in my paragon account.

i do have some experience with creating bootable flash drives with ultraiso, in the past so i think if i can find out what type of software/tool to put on a bootable flash drive or cd to fix partitions and/or recover data from a computer i can salvage some of my data or maybe even get lucky and fix this without having to format and install windows again or mess with installing stuff from my motherboard gigabyte amd 7 series utility dvd.

[tangomouse]

Active @ partition recovery and get data back for ntfs are good but not free ,however this one is but runs under windows http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/freeware-data-recovery/
what u need is one that runs under dos ,this one does http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[Alboguy]

Insert the Win7 CD and don't do a start-up repair. Choose to open command prompt. After the window pops up type: bootrec /fixmbr. This command should rebuilt the MBR data.

[thomasalan]

bootrec /fixmbr said sucess but i still get Invalid partition table, i could'nt figure out how to do the testdisk dos so i just gave up on that, i burned a paragon hard disk manager bootable cd and that was useless. so i'm still left with invalid partition table on boot.

the exact words it says now are Invalid partition table. i just bought this computer less than 2 weeks ago so i havent gotten around to do any disk image backups, it seems i never get around to doing that and i told myself i would do that this time when i got my new computer...

---------- Post added at 09:09 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:38 AM ----------

sorry to double post but i have new info, i have resolved this issue with Easus Partition Table Doctor 3.5 bootable cd, this fixed a error then i was able to reinstall windows, before i was not able to reinstall windows i had a error that would come up, when i attempted to do so before, after i reinstalled windows i was able to install paragon hard disk manager 9.5 and manage partitions, where i ended up resizing the partition called logical it had about 300 gb of space on it. I decided to do a complete install because it has only been a couple weeks since i got this computer and i figured what the hell im unemployed and have nothing to do anyway.