Hello all,
I thought I should add to this thread.
I recently ran into a Dell Latitude 7440 laptop that would not boot. NTFS.sys error BlueScreen during the Windows 7 x64 startup kept coming up.
I put this small SSD drive into a USB reader, and it would instantly crash and force any Windows PC to restart (Windows 8.1/7/XP(yeah I found a couple XP boxes kicking around).
Anyways.... I decided to try a bootable Linux USB, and guess what.... the drive was readable and I recovered all of the data. I then put the drive back in the PC it came from, and Windows stated that it would like to "Repair Install", but I must put in
the original Windows software. I did that and the drive fixed itself. Works like it did before!
I can only assume that the Linux bootable USB fixed something on the drive, or the drive actually has a physical issue that will come back in the future. At first I thought it had a power problem of sorts.... Of course, the Dell Diagnostics will never
find anything wrong.
I ran an updated Bootable USB Microsoft Defender virus scan and nothing was found.
Cliff notes:
- Windows NTFS drive would shutdown any Windows machine instantly
- Plug drive into non-Windows O/S --> Solved (for now)