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C: drive suddenly showing as unformatted?
Hi all,
I've got a friend of the family's desktop here. It is an older Inspiron 620 running Win10 22H2 (I'm assuming, I can't boot it up to check, but it does have auto-updates turned on, so...)
A few years back the HDD was upgraded to a Crucial 1TB SSD. It's been working great...until now. This weekend she shut her computer down, then went to visit her mother who lives a few hours away for a few days. When she came back, her computer would turn on, but not boot at all. It would POST, but after that just a black screen and the HDD indicator light would just light up solid.
I assumed it may be a hard drive issue or a drive partition issue. The BIOS sees the drive and I can see the drive from a Linux Live USB, but it won't mount under Linux (it's an NTFS formatted drive) which is weird because I've used the same Linux stick to access MANY NTFS drives in the past.
I booted it up in Macrium Reflect's Live USB, but the 'Fix Windows Boot Issues' option doesn't give me the choice to use it and the C: partition with Windows is listed as 'Unformatted Primary' so something must've majorly messed up the filesystem.
I tried a chkdsk and that showed it fixing a lot of errors, but the drive is still being listed as 'Unformatted Primary' in Macrium, so clearly that chkdsk didn't help....
She has some older backups, but not everything is on them so I would love to try and save what is on this drive if I can. I am cloning it as it stands to a different drive right now so I can try and work on it from that drive.
Any ideas or methods I could use to try and repair the filesystem on that disk?
Thanks!