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Hey mastodon
Most of you are tech savvy
My SSD that has a windows 11 install on it is reading as "NTFS" and refuses to boot. Instead it loops trying and failing the automatic repairs
Every time i do an "sfc /scannow" on command prompt it says it finds and repairs corrupt files.
It is lying to me.
I've tried 'dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth' Doesn't work
Does anyone have any idea on how i can fix this?
#computers #windows11 #techhelp
#computerhelp
@Bimble have you tried repairing your install using installation media? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-installation-media-for-windows-99a58364-8c02-206f-aa6f-40c3b507420d
@derFisch I can't even install a clean windows 11 on it since i can't access the ssd at all
Only thing i can think of now is buying a new ssd and transferring the files over or buying/building a new pc so i don't have to deal with this at all anymore
@Bimble hm, if you can see the file system format type (that's what NTFS is if you hadn't got that yet) you should be able to access it.
you shouldn't need to buy anything else though. you can use space on your win10 drive or storage drive (if you have one) to back up the stuff on the win11 drive. or if you can't do that, you probably wouldn't be able to copy those files anyway
@derFisch Any time I try to access it i get an "Access is denied" message I straight up don't know what to do about it
The NTFS thing is abnormal because before then it just read as a drive and had a bar that showed how much storage was available like normal now it just says NTFS
@Bimble hmmm. how about this https://www.jiho.com/en/tips/fix-hard-drive-access-denied.html
@derFisch I'll give it a try
@Bimble good luck!
@derFisch this gave me access to the files on that ssd but it still doesnt boot windows
@Bimble yeah, I didn't expect it to fix the install. I'd suggest trying various recovery options you have from your windows 10 install now that it has access to it, and if those don't help, back up your stuff and get a fresh install going