Question Why am I seeing nothing in Windows apps & features list?

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333Matt

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There was a power outage, and my PC went out. It came back OK, except... I noticed the taskbar icon for Visual Studio 2022 is now blank.

It won't start from the blank icon, or the start menu.

I went into the Control Panel => Apps & features to see if it could be repaired. There is NOTHING in the list.

I obviously haven't tried all my apps, but so far everything else I've needed has been OK. Hope there is a fix.

[Yes, I have restarted the PC... more than once]
 
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Ralston18 said:
Try running "dism" and "sfc /scannow" to find and fix corrupted files.

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-dism-command-line-utility-repair-windows-10-image

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-use-sfc-scannow-to-repair-windows-system-files-2626161
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First, I had to restart. I noticed the long Windows loading screen eventually shows a message "Repairing Drive E: 100%" or similar. I ran the sfc command. It said it found and successfully repaired corrupt files. I restarted and all behavior remains the same. It is obviously something with that drive, because the other one has the OS on it such that I can (eventually) type this. I haven't run dism yet but I suppose that's the next step. Thank you for the information.
 
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DISM finds nothing. I fear me E: is hosed. It mainly housed downloads and had only started to install a few applications, one of which unfortunately was Visual Studio which I was using about every day for a side hustle app dev. Good thing I decided to put stuff in github.

Any recommended actions to see if I can recover that particular drive?

Any recommended actions to protect drives in the future? I think pretty much everything of import (including the CPU power supply) is plugged into strips with surge protection, although the strips are of questionable age and quality. The system has survived several power interruption events surprisingly well thus far.
 
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333Matt said:
Sure. Another note, Opening File Explorer and clicking the drive, after several minutes 'Location is not available' "E:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect."
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Either corrupted file system or failed drive.
If Disk Management shows correct drive capacity, then it might be a corrupt file system.
If capacity very small (compared to what it should be), then the drive is dead.

Then diagnose with HDtune health. Check for Relocated and Pending sectors.
Show screenshot.
 
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Yeah. It's the only drive that doesn't show up in Samsung Magician.

Supposed to have a 5 year warranty maybe I'll pursue that.

In the meantime, what do I need to do to clean up any references to it my OS might be making, I mean missing icons is one thing but it is taking forever to start up and perform certain actions.

C:\>forget e: --dontgimmeanyproblems

Disk Management
 
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SkyNetRising said:
Run to try recovering corrupted file system (from elevated command prompt).
chkdsk e: /f​

If you want failed drive to not interfere with your system, then disconnect it physically.
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Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.4412]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk e: /f
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is New Volume.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
119296 file records processed.
File verification completed.
Phase duration (File record verification): 1.29 seconds.
5646 large file records processed.
Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.00 milliseconds.
0 bad file records processed.
Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.23 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e 532).
An unspecified error occurred (6e74667363686b2e 17b4).

C:\WINDOWS\system32>
 
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That's significant damage.
Run victoria software - Test&Repair with remap option.

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