Question Can't boot off my NVMe SSD anymore ?

[SodaPopin5ki]

I'm an idiot and tried to install Linux on a removable SATA drive, but now I can't boot into Windows 10 like before.

Variously, Ive gotten errors 0xc0000001 and sometimes 0xc0000098

I've got a MSI Z490 A Pro with an i7 10700k. Drive is an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB 3D NAND NVMe Gen3x4 PCIe M.2 2280 Solid State Drive. BIOS is in UEFI mode

I've reformatted the tiny 100MB Fat32 partition, gave it a drive letter (H and did bcdboot C:\windows /s H: and Bcdboot C:\windows /l en-us /s v: /f all I got messages saying it was successful

I've done all the bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot (got access denied, so fixed that with bootsect /nt60 all), bootrec /rebuildbcd. All saying successful.

I've renamed BCD to BCD.old and did bootrec /rebuildbcd, found 1 Windows installation and did the rebuild.

Anything I'm missing or should try?

Thanks

 

[Colif]

Maybe its Grub
https://askubuntu.com/questions/429610/uninstall-grub-and-use-windows-bootloader

 

[SkyNetRising]

I've reformatted the tiny 100MB Fat32 partition, gave it a drive letter (H and did bcdboot C:\windows /s H: and Bcdboot C:\windows /l en-us /s v: /f all I got messages saying it was successful

How did you format it? Did you format it to NTFS?
EFI system partition needs to be FAT32.

You may also want to turn off Secure boot.

 

[SodaPopin5ki]

Maybe its Grub
https://askubuntu.com/questions/429610/uninstall-grub-and-use-windows-bootloader

I don't have Grub installed yet...which was probably a problem. I should have removed my Windows drive before doing anything.

Thanks though.

 

[SodaPopin5ki]

How did you format it? Did you format it to NTFS?
EFI system partition needs to be FAT32.

You may also want to turn off Secure boot.

I formatted it FAT32 and Secure Boot is off.

Anyway, I'm way past this and just going to reinstall. I found some bad advice online that had me clean what I assumed would be just the FAT32 volume, but it cleared the entire driver's partitions. I've been playing with Testdisk and Photorec to no avail.

I've got all my data backed up, but was hoping to avoid reinstalling all my programs. And I probably lost a bunch of kOS scripts I wrote for Kerbal Space Program which hurt the most, but aren't important in the grand scheme of things.

 

[USAFRet]

I formatted it FAT32 and Secure Boot is off.

Anyway, I'm way past this and just going to reinstall. I found some bad advice online that had me clean what I assumed would be just the FAT32 volume, but it cleared the entire driver's partitions. I've been playing with Testdisk and Photorec to no avail.

I've got all my data backed up, but was hoping to avoid reinstalling all my programs. And I probably lost a bunch of kOS scripts I wrote for Kerbal Space Program which hurt the most, but aren't important in the grand scheme of things.

An OS reinstall requires a reinstallation of your applications.

You can't import them from an old OS backup into a new OS.

 

[SodaPopin5ki]

An OS reinstall requires a reinstallation of your applications.

You can't import them from an old OS backup into a new OS.

I've got a system image which has some of the applications already installed. I'll reinstall the others, and restore the settings from my daily backup.

 

[USAFRet]

Anyway, I'm way past this and just going to reinstall.

I've got a system image which has some of the applications already installed. I'll reinstall the others, and restore the settings from my daily backup.

Things from a previous backup are not going to work in a whole new OS install.

If you recover that old System Image, thats different.


So which are you going to do?
Fresh install, or recover a previous Image?
2 different things.

 

[SodaPopin5ki]

Things from a previous backup are not going to work in a whole new OS install.

If you recover that old System Image, thats different.


So which are you going to do?
Fresh install, or recover a previous Image?
2 different things.

I was considering doing a Windows 11 install if I need to do a fresh install. I'm going to try the image recovery first. Unfortunately, my system image is pretty old, so I'll probably still lose a lot of preferences. I just checked my backup drive, and found the AppData folder in Users isn't backed up by default.

Last chance right now is I'm trying GetDataBack. I'll also make an image of the lost drive (2TB) using Testdisk, in case I can ever recover anything from it. It looks like I recovered some files with PhotoRec, but it's a bit of a jumble.