Helping a neighbor with a dead Win10 system. Cut to chase - the Windows
partition is corrupt. Mind you, of the 900GB allocated, only 46GB are used.
First thought was to try to make a copy of the disk with clonezilla.
Lesson one, overcome the "hibernate" crap that Win10 now uses to speed
start up. Go change your settings now to do a full power off and not
just hibernate. I'll demonstrate at the LinuxFest, December 3...
There is a lovely package of utilities (in Ubuntu at least) called
ntfs3g. Therein are programs such as ntfsclone and ntfsresize. I
secondly reduced the size of the Win10 partition, in part to fit other
drives I have laying around. Thirdly, I attempted to complete my disk
copy effort (having disk to disk copied all of the "sda" partitions with
clonezilla) with ntfsclone --rescue. That happened and the bad sectors
were noted.
At this point, the Windows boot loader doesn't have a clue trying to
boot from "sdb." Next thought is to try to set up a dual boot system so
that maybe grub will boot Win10...
Oh, and did you know that fdisk doesn't speak GPT? Such is progress.
Howard
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