Research in progress. Am trying to even get a backup. Now working from drive copy (sdb).

On 11/23/2016 10:24 AM, Brandon Bradley wrote:
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]
<mailto:[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

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