UX301LA - corrupt partition and volume table

Help and advice required! I posted this in the owners lounge but it should probably have just been posted here in retrospect.

I have the UX301LA-XH72T and have been delighted with it up until now.

I was trying to restore an Acronis Trueimage 2014 backup to my C: drive this morning from an external hard drive via USB. I have done this many times before, but today the process failed with an error message and it has left my system in an inconsistent state. My system fails to boot and cycles through the "Preparing automatic repair", "Diagnosing your PC" & "Attempting repairs" before finally admitting defeat with "Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your PC”.

My first thought was to restore back to factory image, install Trueimage and try to restore the backup again. When I tried to restore to the factory image, this failed too. I select "Reset your PC" from the recovery menu, click next at the prompt and receive "Unable to reset your PC. A required drive partition is missing".

I have been able to get to a command prompt and can see that my disks and partitions are not as they were... There is a chunk of free space and what was the D: drive now seems to be being presented as the C: drive. I think what has happened is that the partition and volume table has been corrupted - I have been nowhere near them. I think I need to find a way to recover my original settings.

Can anyone else with a similar model please post equivalent Diskpart output to show how the volumes and partitions were configured out of the box? (my diskpart output is shown below)

If anyone can think of a better way to resolve this I would be very interested. I have tried 'Partition Wizard' from a bootable USB but it couldn't seem to recover things. I am not that keen to go down the clean install route but accept I might be forced that way.

Any advice much appreciated. Thanks in anticipation. James.



Diskpart output

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200

Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: MININT-28JQ6J6

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 476 GB 189 GB *

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

Intel ASUS_OS
Disk ID: {7C4580AF-CC26-4522-8FC8-0289C67CF4AE}
Type : RAID
Status : Online
Path : 6
Target : 1
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#RAID(P06T01L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only : No
Boot Disk : No
Pagefile Disk : No
Hibernation File Disk : No
Crashdump Disk : No
Clustered Disk : No

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 C DATA NTFS Partition 265 GB Healthy
Volume 1 SYSTEM FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy Hidden
*Volume 2 D Recovery NTFS Partition 900 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 NTFS Partition 450 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 E NTFS Partition 350 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 5 F Restore NTFS Partition 20 GB Healthy Hidden

Partition ### Type Size Offset
------------- ---------------- ------- -------
Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Recovery 900 MB 101 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 1001 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 450 MB 191 GB
Partition 5 Recovery 350 MB 191 GB
Partition 6 Primary 265 GB 191 GB
Partition 7 Recovery 20 GB 456 GB

 

Try using DISKPART and clear the entire drive with clean command.
Then try the same procedures again.