Hi, I understand the risk. I would like to keep the files if possible but it is nothing vital. Here is the diskpart
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Hi,
My pc running windows 10 had the boot/startup error occur earlier today and it isn't the first time. Previously, I used a usb stick to use the recovery tools and it worked although this time it did not.
I decided to try to run some other commands in the command prompt that recreated a bunch of boot files and my bios now shows me 5 booting options; 3 named windows boot manager (previously there was 1 which I would boot from normally) 1 that was just named after my SSD, and the usb plugged in. I tried a few other options but I kept running into errors such as this one and inaccessible boot device. Is there any other method? Am i able to just reinstall windows without losing anything?
Thanks!
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Anonymous
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Ivan B 123.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor2025-03-08T21:10:19+00:00 Hi ,
It was protected as EFI System, let's try to create a partition unit so you can install Windows. You try to back up the files, remembering gdisk may have lost the files, I'm always informing you.
You will access the command prompt, type diskpart > List disk > Select disk 0 > list volume
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Anonymous
2025-03-08T20:50:33+00:00 Hi, I did the gdisk method but it turned it to an EFI?
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Ivan B 123.8K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2025-03-08T20:20:14+00:00 Hi ,
Repeat the process with Gdisk and use the w command to do so, but remember that there is a risk that the conversion will fail and you will lose the files.
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Anonymous
2025-03-08T20:09:41+00:00 Hi, it didn’t seem to work