After a few hair pulling hours, I'm glad to say that I managed to get my data disk back, albeit with a 6 hours chkdsk ahead. What really happened...
Oh, I failed to mention : I have made my case worse running testdisk and restoring a trace Intel partition I assumed was TC's. Not that I know...
HEy all, I'm glad I found this thread; very promising. My accident happened during a spring cleaning, (SSD, XP>8.1, alignment, recycling of backup...
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