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Dronecatcher

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Jun 17, 2014
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Reading your first post, it appears you had someone salvage the data off your drive and they reformatted/partitioned it using a Ubuntu Live CD - why not try the same? And as before, if it doesn't work, disconnect the hard drive and see if the Ubuntu (or whichever Linux) then boots.
 
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