Ugh. Windows not accessible

[ProjectBox153]

I have Windows 10 installed on my 240GB SSD, and Windows 10 got stuck in a boot loop. When I booted into another copy of Windows (from a USB drive) it sees the partition with Windows on it, but it's marked as RAW and I can't access it. I need these files! Anyone know how to get to them?

[Zando_]

Try Linux?

[Mira Yurizaki]

17 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I have Windows 10 installed on my 240GB SSD, and Windows 10 got stuck in a boot loop. When I booted into another copy of Windows (from a USB drive) it sees the partition with Windows on it, but it's marked as RAW and I can't access it. I need these files! Anyone know how to get to them?

Get TestDisk to try and convert it back to NTFS. I've used it a few times in the past successfully.

[computer1up]

3 hours ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Get TestDisk to try and convert it back to NTFS. I've used it a few times in the past successfully.

Before you do that, make a clone of the full drive to another one if you can. That way, you can experiment on the clone, and if your install gets messed up even further, at least you don't lose your files immediately. 

[computer1up]

3 hours ago, Zando Bob said:

Try Linux?

Linux probably doesn't like NTFS formatted drives at all. At least, you can't write to it AND if your last Windows shutdown wasn't clean, it can't even read it. Maybe HirensBootCD may have tools for fixing this though. 

[Zando_]

20 minutes ago, computer1up said:

Linux probably doesn't like NTFS formatted drives at all. At least, you can't write to it AND if your last Windows shutdown wasn't clean, it can't even read it. Maybe HirensBootCD may have tools for fixing this though. 

Huh. My macOS install reads and copies to/from my NTFS Windows drive just fine. 

[computer1up]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

Huh. My macOS install reads and copies to/from my NTFS Windows drive just fine. 

Huh, aight. If I try that with my Sierra install, it won't write but it will just read. Also, I'm talking about my external drive and not about a bootcamp partition, don't know if that would change things...

[Zando_]

Just now, computer1up said:

Huh, aight. If I try that with my Sierra install, it won't write but it will just read. Also, I'm talking about my external drive and not about a bootcamp partition, don't know if that would change things...

My macOS install is now my PC, not an actual Mac, maybe that's why... I'm pretty sure it can write as well though. Maybe it can't I don't remember. 

[ProjectBox153]

AFAIK, MacOS can only read NTFS partitions, and can only write to them with an add on. 

[computer1up]

1 minute ago, Zando Bob said:

My macOS install is now my PC, not an actual Mac, maybe that's why... I'm pretty sure it can write as well though. Maybe it can't I don't remember. 

It might be that the hackintosh tools actually install the NTFS3g driver automagically. With that you can write to NTFS, but I had a few problems with it in the past so I tend to stay away from that. 

 

But don't forget that macOS is also a different story than Linux. 

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, computer1up said:

It might be that the hackintosh tools actually install the NTFS3g driver automagically. With that you can write to NTFS, but I had a few problems with it in the past so I tend to stay away from that. 

 

But don't forget that macOS is also a different story than Linux. 

I used the tools from a certain place that helps people install unix based operating systems from a certain well known tech company on non-approved hardware. (the rules are annoying sometimes...)

[computer1up]

4 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

I have Windows 10 installed on my 240GB SSD, and Windows 10 got stuck in a boot loop. When I booted into another copy of Windows (from a USB drive) it sees the partition with Windows on it, but it's marked as RAW and I can't access it. I need these files! Anyone know how to get to them?

What you could do is try and see if the SSD-install works in another machine. Windows 10 is very good at adapting to other hardware, and maybe it's a driver that wouldn't work. 

Oh and now that I think about it, have you tried booting into safe mode? Interrupting the startup process for 2-3 times should bring up startup repair, which should give you the option to select advanced boot options. In that menu, you can select Safe mode with networking. This might be handy to be able to browse the internet while you are troubleshooting drivers or something like that. If it boots into safe mode successfully, you can be certain that it's a faulty driver. 

[ProjectBox153]

5 hours ago, computer1up said:

What you could do is try and see if the SSD-install works in another machine. Windows 10 is very good at adapting to other hardware, and maybe it's a driver that wouldn't work. 

Oh and now that I think about it, have you tried booting into safe mode? Interrupting the startup process for 2-3 times should bring up startup repair, which should give you the option to select advanced boot options. In that menu, you can select Safe mode with networking. This might be handy to be able to browse the internet while you are troubleshooting drivers or something like that. If it boots into safe mode successfully, you can be certain that it's a faulty driver. 

It doesn’t even open advanced startup like it should. I have to launch it from my installer USB.

[computer1up]

14 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

It doesn’t even open advanced startup like it should. I have to launch it from my installer USB.

That's kinda weird. But then again, DOES it even boot into safemode?