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My response to @jumanji. Thank you for your suggestions will update later.
I'm just posting the screenshots you asked for here.
Posted on HP Community for explanation to the code error, waiting for answer.
Disk Management
MiniTool Wizard Partition Tool
HD Sentinel
Surface Scan
@steve108
Booted Ventoy/Linux Mint > Computer but the HDD would not mount!
Linux Mint
Is Linux Mint able to mount your healthy boot drive? I noticed F: was RAW earlier in your now deleted screenshot and isn't any longer (IIRC). I suspect the inability to mount has to do with the ill state of the drive as I was able to mount all my working drives from Linux when I booted from Ventoy.
Is Windows able to access the files in G:? I assume it can't access F: still.
HD Sentinel also shows a ?? for F: capacity.
I'm not familiar with data recovery in a situation like this ...... maybe someone else has ideas.
Were you able to get themes to work in Ventoy? It took me bit of futzing around to get thems to work when I tried a few days ago - wasn't exactly straightforward for me.
@steve108
Is Linux Mint able to mount your healthy boot drive? Yes
I noticed F: was RAW... Yrs in Disk Management screenshot it can be seen as RAW
Is Windows able to access the files in G:? Only one file as screenshot below taken yesterday on another pc named as Drive I:
HD Sentinel also shows a ?? for F: capacity. F: is the Windows and data partition which can't be read.
Were you able to get themes to work in Ventoy? No I won't be messing with that.
Thank you for your help.
scopio,
Thanks for the update and a pleasure to try and assist.
I found this video How to Convert RAW Hard Drive to NTFS Without Losing Data - YouTube See what you think about trying it. Again, I'm no data recovery expert, but if you don't receive any other suggestions, you may want to try it.
Another resource to consider: Data Recovery
I'm quite certain that F: is still RAW based on your factual evidence. I'd try the video if you don't get better suggestions.
I copied the Puppy ISO from jumaji link to my GPT Ventoy USB, but it won't boot because it's not UEFI (I made my Ventoy USB GPT because I want to boot with secure boot/UEFI enabled - it works for other distros I tried).
My thinking is Linux is Linux and if Mint can't mount the failed drive, no other flavors of Linux will (assuming you don't "fix" the drive first) - but any success otherwise to prove me wrong would be great.
If you do end up trying the video to fix F: , try to see if you can access the F: drive/copy files out of it using Windows before going to Linux - just so we know if that was a factor or not.
I am now running Linux Mint from Ventoy. In case the OP wants to take a screenshot on Mint, click on the "Menu" button in the bottom left-hand corner, select "Accessories" under "All Applications", and then click on "Screenshot" in the right column. The following is a screenshot of "Computer":
The Ventoy USB device cannot be mounted when Mint is running from it.
Is it worthwhile to try Windows PE?