Can I recover files on an NVMe with a corrupted boot drive?
Posted by General_Dapster@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 3 comments
Yesterday when I got home from school my PC wouldn't start into windows and it said system 32 was corrupted, mentioned stuff about the kernel, etc, and no repair options functioned, couldn't even attempt repair with a USB drive or it'd just turn off on it's own for other errors.
I had a picture, it said "The operating system couldn't be loaded because the kernel is missing or contains errors." code was 0xc0000221.
I ended up taking out the NVMe from my old gaming laptop that didn't turn on anymore, and it works! But I don't like settings on this new windows installation (uses PIN instead of my local account with the network) and it's slower. I can access the files of my old NVMe perfectly fine as well, but had to reinstall some stuff
is there any way to recover the operating system of my old NVMe without deleting all my files? I wanna keep all my applications and pictures, I had almost 400 gb of data on it (1tb drive), but if I can't repair the OS without resetting it I'll probably just have to get used to the new boot drive
egnegn1@reddit
You can either do a "sfc /scannow", or an inplace update.
If cannot boot into the system any more you may also do an USB installation and wenn offered select keep apps and data.
General_Dapster@reddit (OP)
scannow doesn't do anything, haven't tried booting into the drive in a while but last time I did it crashed with errors about the kernel upon trying to load the USB drive to repair
Currently using my laptop NVMe still
egnegn1@reddit
sfc is a tool for repairing the system on a disk and not for usb.
As I mentioned. Try booting from USB installation media and do an install of windows, but should remove the nvme and install the old disk. You may stop before sying yes to install if it doesn't offer installation with keeping old app data.