Windows 10: Inaccessible partition after the 1909 update

Hi, All,

I updated from 1809 to 1909 one hour ago and upon restart, the boot screen said to click any key to skip a disk check, I skipped it. Then the Windows loaded, I noticed some missing icons on the desktop but didn't mind them. I opened Windows Explorer and saw that the other partition of the disk is shown as Local Disk, without showing the size of the partition. When I tried opening it, it said that it must be formatted first, the Disk Management showed it as RAW. The Disk Management also showed a new recovery partition that was not there before the update.

I restarted the PC and let the Windows to repair the partition, after that the OS loaded. I went to Windows Explorer and now the partition was showed with the correct name but again without the size. When I tried to access it, it said "Access is denied". I found some instructions online and managed to make it accessible by giving the "Authenticated Users" group full access. Now it's accessible but it's empty, it's showing 386 out of 387 free. TestDisk is saying that there's one partition that cannot be recovered and if I try the Undelete option, the program just closes itself (I have to try other recovery tools).

Did anyone encounter similar thing after update? I didn't have any important information (mainly games, software and a couple of virtual machines) but I have to say that it's annoying and I would like to know if there's a specific action that is causing it so I can avoid similar issue in the future. I have also another SATA drive attached to the PC and there were no issues with it after the update.

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