Windows 10: reboot loop, missing users, windows, programfiles folders

Hello,


I have two separate SSD's on which I have two installations of Windows 10. For simplicity's sake, let's say I started working with Disk 1, then installed W10 on disk 2. I set the BIOS to use disk 2 and have been running with disk 2 for the last 6 months.


Last night I needed to get data and a few other things off of disk 1 so I set the boot in the BIOS to disk 1. I booted in, generated and copied some data files, rebooted, and went into the bios to change the boot order back to disk 2.


Now I'm stuck in the Automatic Repair loop that many folks have seen if I set the BIOS to boot from disk 2.


Even more interestingly, when I boot back into disk 1 and look at the mounted disk 2 (it's currently the G:\ drive) there are only 4 folders: NVIDIA, Python35, temp, and WINDOWS. No users folder. No Program Files. No Program Files x86.


I always turn off the "hide extensions, don't show hidden", so it's not that. If I open a command prompt and try a "cd users" from the g:\ drive I get "The system cannot find the path specified."


If I boot from disk 2 into the command prompt from the Auto Repair screen and change drives to disk 2 and do a dir, I see the 4 directories I mentioned. Again, doing a "cd users" from there yields the same "The system cannot find the path specified." Interestingly, if I cd into the Windows folder and do a dir it only lists a "Logs" subdir. Nothing else. No system32, no Windows files, nothing!


I used two different data recovery tools and neither shows any of the files that I need as having been deleted, although it does show files I did manually delete from days earlier. It's as if those directories never existed!

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• What did the HP supported suggested you to fix the issue?

I suggest you to follow the steps provided in the following article and check if it helps.

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