I’m honestly losing my mind over this
I for some dumb reason decided to run a Windows System Restore from a restore point a few days ago. It didn’t work and kept getting me an Error message and I foolishly just kept trying other restore points until after the third when the whole system decided to take a dump on me and stop working
After rebooting I got:
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x7B)
In WinRE CMD:
chkdsk c: /f
Cannot open volume for direct access
and
bootrec /fixmbr
The system cannot find the path specified
BUT here’s my main concern:
In diskpart:
list disk
There are no fixed disks to show
and:
list volume
shows nothing too.
So WinRE literally sees NO drives at all.
However:
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BIOS/UEFI DOES detects the SSD normally
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SSD model shows up correctly and completely fine in BIOS
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RAM and CPU are detected fine
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Boot mode is UEFI
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I didn’t change AHCI/RAID settings
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EXPO/XMP is enabled but system was stable before all this
System:
ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2
Ryzen 5 7600
Western Digital SSD (detected in BIOS)
At this point I’m trying to figure out whether:
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WinRE/NVMe drivers somehow got corrupted
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partition table/EFI got destroyed
Has anyone seen WinRE detect literally zero disks while BIOS still sees the NVMe perfectly fine?
Is there anything I can do except completely reinstall Windows and lose all my data?
It’s amazing to me how Windows just has features implemented that completely f up your entire hard drive and system. Great. Really thinking about just moving to Linux atp
