Windows 10: I think I have destoryed my Windows boot drive... need help to recover it!!

Discus and support I think I have destoryed my Windows boot drive... need help to recover it!! in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Hello!I have been using Windows 10 for several years now both for working and gaming. I have recently decided to make an upgrade to Z790 and Intel... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by Yannis Tzev, Nov 28, 2023.

  1. I think I have destoryed my Windows boot drive... need help to recover it!!


    Hello!I have been using Windows 10 for several years now both for working and gaming. I have recently decided to make an upgrade to Z790 and Intel 13700 CPU. I thought I would just swap the drive to new motherboard and Windows would recognize the changes. I decided to also remove some drivers to create a "cleaner" windows drive.I removed the sound card drivers, GPU drivers and some Intel drivers and this is when all went wrong!! My Windows setup on old mobo & CPU presented some blue screens errors and I could not load into old PC. I thought lets put all together in the new mobo & CPU a

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    Yannis Tzev, Nov 28, 2023
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  2. Recover files from Flash drive

    Does not work on a windows pc which is what the OP probably intended

    windows by default does not have HFS and HFS+ based hard drives.
    Able to perform retrieval on both HFS and HFS+ based hard drives. and so will not work with windows

    thanks for the effort
     
    dorsetknob, Nov 28, 2023
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    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Nov 28, 2023
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    I think I have destoryed my Windows boot drive... need help to recover it!!

    Recover files from Flash drive

    According to me, the best flash drive recovery software which i have used and recovered files easily. It is very easy to use and within few steps you can recover data from flash drive. http://billhoyer.com/recover-corrupt-flash-drive-mac
     
    Macazine, Nov 28, 2023
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