Windows 10 Installation- old windows data in secondary drive

Riz said:

Thank you so much for your time, concern and of course effort you made to give your best.

Kindly suggest me if I should take it to any data recovery center or shop. Can they help to get all my data back?

Yes, Riz, they can......butttttttttttttt, $$$. Others would know a good guesstimate, but reliable data recovery is not going to be cheap. I'd exhaust all resources here before going down that road. Just my opinion.

Boot into safe mode, then run the chkdsk command suggested by @f14tomcat. If the OS is still preventing it to run, just run it by pressing Y, it cannot be serious enough to cause more problems in safe mode.

axe0 said:

Boot into safe mode, then run the chkdsk command suggested by @f14tomcat. If the OS is still preventing it to run, just run it by pressing Y, it cannot be serious enough to cause more problems in safe mode.

Thank you, Martijn......

Riz said:

Here is the result of chkdsk

Code:

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk D: /F
The type of the file system is NTFS.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process.  Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first.
ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID.
Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) Y
Volume dismounted.  All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  213248 file records processed.
File verification completed.
  4341 large file records processed.
  0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  278572 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
  32663 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  39605976 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.
No further action is required.

 312568831 KB total disk space.
  36386016 KB in 135331 files.
    112744 KB in 32664 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    329231 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
 275740840 KB available on disk.

      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
  78142207 total allocation units on disk.
  68935210 allocation units available on disk.

This part could possibly cause Recuva to choke. Do you want to try that again? Deep Scan? See if it hangs at the same spot? I know it's almost 1:30 in the morning where you are (according to your time zone).

CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.

Windows has made corrections to the file system.

@f14tomcat and @axe0, do you think that at this point it would be wise for Riz to get another hard drive and clone his D drive to the new hard drive? In case there is damage to his D drive, the recovery drive could kill it and there would be no way to recover files. If he had a clone of the drive, there would be a copy of everything on a healthy drive to continue the process.

The resident expert in this is probably Jumanji. I could try to contact him and see if he can help. It will probably be tomorrow as I think it is around 1 A.M. where he is located.

Riz said:

It's 1:30 AM but it's night here not morning. So, I'll try it again at morning and let you know.

Ok, Riz. Meanwhile, we're looking at other options. Have a good night. TC