Hi,
I have a mini PC boot drive that now no longer boots into Windows 10 Pro. It is a 256GB mSATA HDSSESB-256GB/C32 drive. The initial symptom was that randomly when booted up, after the Windows loading circle it would just go to a black screen. I was still able to go into the recovery menu and try the different options but trying to fix from there didn't work (System repair, automatic repair. CMD was accessible but bootrec commands didnt work).
I plugged in a bootable USB to see if I could access the drive from another windows drive, however, although it would show in explorer it would freeze up the system for ages. When it was eventually responsive again I was getting the error "H:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" whenever I tried to access it.
Disk Management shows the drive and all its partitions (EFI System Partition, Recovery Partition and main data partition). The main partition shows as RAW instead of NTFS.
I have an external mSATA reader and so I plugged the drive into another computer and checked to see if I could access it from there, but the same symptoms occurred: I/O error and it appearing as RAW in Disk Management.
I then tried a bunch of recovery programs, but here are the results:
There is nothing too important on there, but there are some files I would be interested in recovering if possible. There is some personal information on there so I don't want to send it off for repair/recovery (plus since as I said there isn't very important stuff on there)
Are there other things I can try? Would windows reinstall (keeping files and documents) help in this case? Any recommendations would be helpful.
Kind regards
I have a mini PC boot drive that now no longer boots into Windows 10 Pro. It is a 256GB mSATA HDSSESB-256GB/C32 drive. The initial symptom was that randomly when booted up, after the Windows loading circle it would just go to a black screen. I was still able to go into the recovery menu and try the different options but trying to fix from there didn't work (System repair, automatic repair. CMD was accessible but bootrec commands didnt work).
I plugged in a bootable USB to see if I could access the drive from another windows drive, however, although it would show in explorer it would freeze up the system for ages. When it was eventually responsive again I was getting the error "H:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error" whenever I tried to access it.
Disk Management shows the drive and all its partitions (EFI System Partition, Recovery Partition and main data partition). The main partition shows as RAW instead of NTFS.
I have an external mSATA reader and so I plugged the drive into another computer and checked to see if I could access it from there, but the same symptoms occurred: I/O error and it appearing as RAW in Disk Management.
I then tried a bunch of recovery programs, but here are the results:
| Tool | Result |
|---|---|
| EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard | Drive does not show |
| MiniTool Partition Wizard | Drive does not show |
| Eassos DiskGenius | Sometimes shows, but displays I/O Error same as Windows Explorer |
| CleverFiles Disk Drill | Drive does not show |
| Macrium Reflect | Drive does not show |
| Piriform Recuva | Drive does not show |
| CGSecurity PhotoRec | Drive letter shows, but recovery yields 0 files, did not scan |
| CGSecurity TestDisk | Drive letter shows, but scan shows read error, and did not scan |
| Prosoft Data Rescue | Drive does not show |
| Tenorshare 4DDiG | Unable to get past the scanning drives section |
There is nothing too important on there, but there are some files I would be interested in recovering if possible. There is some personal information on there so I don't want to send it off for repair/recovery (plus since as I said there isn't very important stuff on there)
Are there other things I can try? Would windows reinstall (keeping files and documents) help in this case? Any recommendations would be helpful.
Kind regards
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