Do the research and backup first, but you'll probably have good luck by reinstalling Windows over Windows.
On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Howard White <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group > /nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
