Non bootable partition. Please help

[KECO]

I have a bit of a weird situation here. I have a laptop and a desktop, and somehow one day the laptop just refused to find a boot drive (drive 0). I took out the existing drive and put it in my desktop pc and an option to boot from that drive didn't show up. I scanned the windows files, perhaps they are somehow incorrect or broken, but everything seemed fine. My only guess ins that the D partition on drive 0 is somehow messed up. Is there anything i could do apart from reinstalling windows because i really don't want to lose my data, the programs, etc.

If i am missing any details fell free to ask, i am not really familiar with this kind of tech problem

[Eigenvektor]

The boot partition of Windows is C not D. You can see in your screenshot that is says "Boot, PageFile, CrashDump, …" etc. while D is simply a basic data partition. So your boot drive should be Disk 1, not Disk 0.

 

~edit: Ok, so it shows up as D because it's plugged into your PC, which is why it doesn't show Boot (since you're booted from the PC's install). Have a look into D, does it contain a Windows directory etc?

 

9 minutes ago, KECO said:

Is there anything i could do apart from reinstalling windows because i really don't want to lose my data, the programs, etc.

Then backup your data beforehand. I'd recommend you do this regularly regardless of issues, so you don't risk losing data in case the disk becomes inaccessible for some other reason.

 

You could simply copy the files to the PC, if you have enough room, since the disk is already in there.

[y0ur5h4d0w]

this is a correct behaviour because Disk 0 (which if i nuderstood correctly) is your laptop drive, is missing the "boot" flag, however, IF your laptop have more then 1 disk, it's possible that the boot partition was made to the other disk if it was plugged in while installing windows, i had this issue once when i had 2 disks plugged in and installed windows, my disk2 was ext4 file system that got wiped and the boot partition was installed there. 

 

for some reasons windows might have corrupted the boot partition, it happens rarely but it could happen, depending on how fast you want to get back to operativity you could either troubleshoot and waste some time or simply backup your data on your PC and clean reinstall windows (i wouldn't bother troubleshooting, i had hard times reviving the boot partition on windows, a clean install is faster)

[KECO]

24 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

The boot partition of Windows is C not D. You can see in your screenshot that is says "Boot, PageFile, CrashDump, …" etc. while D is simply a basic data partition. So your boot drive should be Disk 1, not Disk 0.

 

~edit: Ok, so it shows up as D because it's plugged into your PC, which is why it doesn't show Boot (since you're booted from the PC's install). Have a look into D, does it contain a Windows directory etc?

 

Then backup your data beforehand. I'd recommend you do this regularly regardless of issues, so you don't risk losing data in case the disk becomes inaccessible for some other reason.

 

You could simply copy the files to the PC, if you have enough room, since the disk is already in there.

From what i understand all files required for windows to boot are there it just refuses to boot for some reason. 

[Eigenvektor]

7 minutes ago, KECO said:

From what i understand all files required for windows to boot are there it just refuses to boot for some reason. 

One thing that seems a bit weird is that the EFI System Partition is at the end of the disk. Windows normally places it at the start, as you can see on your computer's disk. That partition contains the files necessary for the initial boot process. Could be this partition is corrupted.

 

You could try booting from a Windows installation USB stick, it should include a Startup Repair option. But it might be easier to reinstall.

 

No matter what you try, if you have the room on your computer's disk, I'd backup the files you want to keep beforehand. You can use 7zip or similar to compress files to save some room if needed.

[y0ur5h4d0w]

the fastest way to fix your issues is a clean install, since you have your drive on your other PC simply backup what you need, make a bootable usb with rufus and install a clean version of windows and recover your data, it's waaaaay faster and gives 100000 less headaches, i've lost so much time myself trying to fix this kind of stuff that i stopped troubleshooting at all and fresh installed everything anytime i have some issues that still let me access to the personal data