Topic: unable to boot system after partition move
Hi, I'm new here so a big HELLO to all. I hope you are all doing good!
First of all I do apologise if this question has been asked and answered many times before.
I have a dell inspiron 15r-se 7520. My disk has 2 partitions. One for Windows 10 and one for file storage. There was unallocated space before the windows partition. I wanted to move the windows partition to the left and have the unallocated space after windows to the right at the end of the disk. I used gparted and asked it to move the windows partition to the left and have the unallocated space after it. It showed to be doing just that. However 20 mins before it was due to finish my laptops screen went black and the caps lock key started to flash on and off. I left it for an hour to just get on with the job. After the hour the hard drive led had stopped flashing and the computer seemed to be doing nothing. It would not respond to anything. I left it for another 30 mins and still nothing. I turned it off and rebooted into gparted which said all operations have completed. However there was a yellow triangle warning sign next to the windows partition. I clicked it and it told me that the partition had unallocated space in it. It recommended me to run a check which would repair the error. It completed. I now have a windows partition (no warning triangle) that has merged with the unallocated space and my system will not boot. I have tried windows startup repair and recovery console even wrote a new mbr/bootloader/Fixmbr and fixboot using bootrec. Still won't boot. I'm currently running chkdsk /r. Any ideas what I could try after that or do you think ill have to try to recover the partition. If so what recovery software would you recommended? I have pretty much the majority of the leading software company's tool available to me.
I hope you got all that and could understand me ok.
I would be extremely grateful to anyone who has the time to help me.
Many thanks in advance.