I was running out of space on my main SSD before installing Overwatch, so I decided to compress the disk at my friend's suggestion. The disk compression went fine and the PC continued running until I went to bed Monday night. Tuesday I wasn't home after work and so this morning was the first time I could boot up the machine (running Windows 7 professional) and play some Overwatch again. Well, on start-up I got "BOOTMGR is compressed. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."
Dreading this error, I plugged in my emergency diag drive, which is the 20GB hard drive running Ubuntu 12.04 that I'm currently on. I tried fixmbr, I tried bootrec, I tried rebuildbcd after getting BCD errors on startup, to no avail. Then, I checked in the Ubuntu disk utility and saw what's in the screenshots. Notice how it's not even showing up anymore in devices (drive label was "Main SSD") and it shows a blank 120GB volume in the disk utility.
Is this drive truly failing? Is all of my data gone because I neglected to back it all up? Or is there some hope that I can at least recover the data? I plan on replacing the SSD with a larger one anyway.
Dreading this error, I plugged in my emergency diag drive, which is the 20GB hard drive running Ubuntu 12.04 that I'm currently on. I tried fixmbr, I tried bootrec, I tried rebuildbcd after getting BCD errors on startup, to no avail. Then, I checked in the Ubuntu disk utility and saw what's in the screenshots. Notice how it's not even showing up anymore in devices (drive label was "Main SSD") and it shows a blank 120GB volume in the disk utility.
Is this drive truly failing? Is all of my data gone because I neglected to back it all up? Or is there some hope that I can at least recover the data? I plan on replacing the SSD with a larger one anyway.