Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
I've seen similar on clean installs. Mount them to a linux system and format the drives. I just had to do this for my mother this past weekend in fact.
She has stuff on this she wants to keep. I don't see how it's going to be possible to retrieve all of it. (lack of knowledge here)
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Just connect the drive to a laptop with a USB to SATA connector then, and mount the drive, you should be able to browse the drive as if it were any old USB and pull of user content.
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Something like this would work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
Something like this would work.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002
Thanks
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Obviously you'll want a LiveUSB of some linux distro of preference.
I used Lubuntu for my mother, was the fastest to grab (since I had a liveUSB of it already)
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
Obviously you'll want a LiveUSB of some linux distro of preference.
I used Lubuntu for my mother, was the fastest to grab (since I had a liveUSB of it already)
I'll make one. Thanks!
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So one will boot from CD but the other won't. Weird. IT says no bootable media but I literally just ran it on the other computer. Odd.
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@wirestyle22 did you confirm BIOS is set to boot from USB?
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Installed as SATA but drive in RAID/AHCI/UEFI mode in bios? (rearrange those as appropriate, any wrong combo = fail)
I've seen this frequently with noobs trying to nuke/pave their own junk. Can happen too if there's a driver conflict / missing driver when the OS goes to boot after the upgrade.
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@wirestyle22 did you confirm BIOS is set to boot from USB?
No I created a LiveDVD because my main thumb drive is home. I could always take it back there I guess
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@MattSpeller said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
Installed as SATA but drive in RAID/AHCI/UEFI mode in bios? (rearrange those as appropriate, any wrong combo = fail)
I've seen this frequently with noobs trying to nuke/pave their own junk. Can happen too if there's a driver conflict / missing driver when the OS goes to boot after the upgrade.
I'll check it out thanks
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haha... what are we in the 20th century!
Ok anyways, is the DVD drive listed at a boot device in BIOS?
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
haha... what are we in the 20th century!
Ok anyways, is the DVD drive listed at a boot device in BIOS?
Yes it is. I also disabled the hard drive entirely to verify that it would not attempt to boot. I've run into weird problems in my time heh.
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Do you have the option to be brought to a boot selection screen.
F12 on some systems, F9 on others.
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
Do you have the option to be brought to a boot selection screen.
F12 on some systems, F9 on others.
Yes and when I do it attempts to load Windows still for some reason even though I choose the CD\DVD drive. This is also why i disabled the hard drive entirely and then it tells me there is no bootable media.
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@wirestyle22 That's odd...
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@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@wirestyle22 That's odd...
I agree lol. That's why I'm here. I've done this a million times and never run into this. It's so odd.
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@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
I've seen similar on clean installs. Mount them to a linux system and format the drives. I just had to do this for my mother this past weekend in fact.
She has stuff on this she wants to keep. I don't see how it's going to be possible to retrieve all of it. (lack of knowledge here)
Linux LiveCD can often see them.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
I've seen similar on clean installs. Mount them to a linux system and format the drives. I just had to do this for my mother this past weekend in fact.
She has stuff on this she wants to keep. I don't see how it's going to be possible to retrieve all of it. (lack of knowledge here)
Linux LiveCD can often see them.
Yeah I made one and can boot from other PC's but this one laptop will not boot. From the information given right before the windows 10 installation they were watching DVD's. Now it isnt recognizing it as bootable media for some reason.
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@scottalanmiller said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@wirestyle22 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
@DustinB3403 said in Windows 10 Update -- Hard Drive No Longer Recognized:
I've seen similar on clean installs. Mount them to a linux system and format the drives. I just had to do this for my mother this past weekend in fact.
She has stuff on this she wants to keep. I don't see how it's going to be possible to retrieve all of it. (lack of knowledge here)
Linux LiveCD can often see them.
2nd this, fire up your fave distro and run GParted
