Unable to boot into OS With MBR Repair

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MikJames

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I'm currently troubleshooting a drive that would display no operating system.
The partition table appears to be intact and i tried a couple of mbr repair and boot tools, however this only changed the boot message to error!.

I recently swapped the cmos battery for a new one and configured it if that is relevant.

At this point I would rather just grab the data off the drive and start anew but i can't seem to access the drive from a linux live cd either.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
Yes I've tried mounting in Linux but the disk cannot be accessed, i'll try again with a different distro and post any error messages.
 
Booted Gparted, attempted to use the data rescue option in gparted and received no file systems found error. The partitions are shown as ntfs and ~120gb used out of 960gb, which would be the file systems right?
 
NTFS is the file system, yes. Does the usage line up with what you remember?

You probably could mount the drive in whatever Linux you had, you were like just missing the ntfs package.
 
Tried in Linux Lite which should already have the ntfs package right?
I get an error stating windows is in hibernation and cannot be accessed outside of root and read only. I haven't figured out the command to gain read only root access to the drive.
 
In short the machine was not shutdown and hiberfil.sys exists on it.

Assuming /media/windows already exists this should mount the drive as read only:
mount -t ntfs -o ro /dev/<sda#> /media/windows
 
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