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Linux can see drive but Win10 can't
I took a drive from a Win7 laptop and hooked it to an external dock on a Win10 PC to copy a large number of files. I've done this hundreds of times across lots of PC's for years across various Win versions, including dozens of different PC's on Win10.
I replaced the drive back into the Win7 laptop and it booted up perfectly as I expected it to. The user boots it up later and it wants to run a repair. She let the repair run for a couple of hours and then forced it off.
I made an Acronis backup of the drive after she brought it back. If I restore that backup to another drive I get the same results as below:
The laptop will now only boot to a black screen with a mouse cursor that moves. Sticky keys won't work nor will ctrl-alt-del. Safe mode shows the same behavior.
If I hook the drive back to the external dock, Win10 will see a drive letter but it just says NTFS and can't access the drive. If I boot a PC using Hiren's reloaded disk into WinXP which from what I understand is basically Linux underneath, I can see the drive, it's directory and access the contents.
So I can copy the data but I really would like to have the full drive accessible inside Win if possible due to some other things I need to do.
chkdsk won't run, it says a pending operation is waiting. I can't clear the flag using dism. It says it completes but chkdsk still gives the same msg about a pending operation.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to repair the directory so that Win can see the drive again?
If I can get Win to see the drive I can run Zinstall migration over a clean install and hopefully get most of the software working again without a day or longer of manual installs.
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