From a look at the Test data it appears that part of the HDD is corrupted
Maybe not, actually.
Man.....it just keeps getting better and better. Went out and bought a brand new WD 500gb SATA drive today. Get home, open the case and discover there's not one but TWO hard drives, aaaaaand no room for a new one!
Ladies and gentlemen, we have.....a RAID! Geez louise.
I'm wondering if that's why it looked like my HDD was corrupted. Because there are two and you were looking at the report from only one of them. I'm soooooo screwed. Aren't I? I should've gotten suspicious when I saw the same HDD listed twice. The good news is that you can see into the 2nd one also with Testdisk.
I was going to back up my data to the new HDD and then do a nondestructive recovery from my recovery drive. This reinstalls Windows, but doesn't delete any other files (supposedly) so you have to reinstall your apps, but everything stays where it was. My concern is that since the C: partition (oh LOL what a euphemism THAT turned out to be!) is unreadable, that the "non-destructive recovery" wil overwrite everying, or otherwise corrupt C: worse than it already is.
Taking into account that all my data is most likely fine, other than my boot sector......and that I have no ability to backup, what do you recommend?