I had an issue with Windows update where it kept reporting "Your device is missing important security and quality fixes" and kept failing on "2022-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 21H2 for...

So, I'm still not clear on what I have, exactly. Is my recovery in C:, in the 3rd partition, both, or neither? How can I tell? Also, can the 3rd partition be safely removed, so I can run mbr2gpt...

zbook, thank you for the greater insight. I performed the in-place upgrade repair through to successful completion with no discernible results...

"Intel Volume0_SSD_Boot" remains absent from my...

Forgive my ignorance. I never did master Windows as a SysEng.
1. What is in partition 3, then? Why did the Win10 upgrade create it?
2. What will an in place upgrade repair do? Is that the same...

I'm not sure why anything from Hibernate would've been present during this troubleshooting. I used powercfg /hibernate off a couple of weeks ago, before I even upgraded to Win10, to remove...

Very well.


pic 1 is the place in my BIOS that allows me to pick either "Legacy ROM" or "EFI Compatible ROM" (the latter is chosen).
pic 2 shows Boot Option #1 set to "Intel Volume1_HDD_Data"...

First, the FAT32 partition was already deleted and returned back to the boot disk as "Free space".

Second, the boot disk is back to its usual...

System Reserved - 100MB NTFS - (System, Active,...

Prior to the Win10 upgrade, the C: drive was a pair of 120GB SSDs. There wasn't any room left for a pagefile, or even a hiberfil.sys file, which I also had to remove. Because Windows maintains a...

zbook, I had already tried that before trying NavyLCDR's suggestions. Trying it again, I reverted my 4th partition back to unused, and ran the validate. It did not pass, as shown in this image...
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Update regarding NavyLCDR's suggestion. Here are a series of 5 more images in my Google Drive...
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ikc8ncvQdxKsxGhydKo4-RizHzVA_OI5?usp=sharing

Toad -...

NavyLCDR, I tried something similar to your suggestion. Since my boot disk already has 3 partitions on it, it would not let me create a 4th of just 100MB, since that would've left a 5th partition of...

NavyLCDR, is that method lossless? Will it wipe out my present boot disk or will it preserve it? I just got done upgrading this from Win7 to Win10 without data loss.

From How to convert MBR to...

All files are now in...
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ikc8ncvQdxKsxGhydKo4-RizHzVA_OI5?usp=sharing

(1) When the system restarts, it shows this splash screen...
Toad - 20220113_143728...

Item "Intel Volume0_SSD_Boot", a RAID1 of 2 Samsung 1TB SSDs, does not appear in the BIOS boot options menu, but it does appear in the F8 boot options menu. As such, every reboot requires manual...

Volume{596b4d79-6fde-11ec-89b4-d7eca7e6ee00} was a faulty SD card I had mounted as volume6. I discovered the fault last night and removed it.

I have run chkdsk extensively on C:, D:, and E:...

Try this link...
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For these images...
(1) partitions as Windows sees them;
(2) the UEFI BIOS Utility, showing the PCI ROM Priority set to "EFI Compatible ROM" (with the only other option being "Legacy ROM");
(3)...

I recently upgraded from a 120GB mirrored pair boot device to a 1TB mirrored pair boot device (2x SSD). The new boot mirror device is named Volume0_SSD_Boot. In the BIOS boot order list, there is...