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Recover Windows laptop from USB/CD (Quick answer)

I need to recover a Vista laptop.  
Drive D was broken during a partition operation (Paragon), think I need to recover the partition.

On drive C I think I need to repair the MBR and/or BOOT.INI and perhaps more.
(I tried to install an OS  on an external drive, but XP installer says it cant because C is corrupt, Is there some way I can put another partition instead of C in this case?)

I think USB would be better than CD, and it must be something I can just download and use.
 I have used Knoppix in the past (But it seems I actually have to do things on an NTFS drive this time).

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for noxch:

The laptop was shut own while it was moving a partition.  The main issue now is getting back the lost partition / the data on it.  (There are free tools that work at least partially).

My C-drive is probably

for rindi:
 getdataback is not free.  Any reason to think it is better than free solutions.


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Olav00007, boot your PC from Paragon Recovery CD, delete the Unformatted partition and then run on free unallocated space Undelete Partition Wizard.
It will find and recover partition to the state it was before the operation.
Also, if operation was interrupted unexpectedly then Paragon warns about unfinished operation and suggests continuing it. Don't you get such message "Your drives were modified by Paragon engine etc"?
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