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Drive partitions changed from NTFS to RAW

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Hello,

I have a user with a Dell Latitude E6520 that has Windows 7 Pro and the entire drive is encrypted with PGP WDE.  A couple days ago, the user reported that he was getting a "mssing operating system" error message on bootup.  He was able to enter the PGP password, but then the missing o/s message came up.  I took the drive out and connected it to my machine and noticed that the partitions were no longer NTFS, they were now RAW and I was unable to access any data on them.

I booted the machine with a PGP recovery disc and decrypted the drive and then used iCare Data Recovery (free edition) to pull off some files that he needs.

Is there a way to convert the partitions back to NTFS so I can either make this machine bootable again or at least pull off the rest of the data?  I'm not looking to spend money on this project if I can avoid it.  This particular user is leaving the company at the end of next week so usability is not the issue, just data extraction.

Thanks,

JG




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