Solved Challenge for Experts. I am 25 years on PC but cant solve this - need only Expert opinions

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

kelper said:
Have you tried running chkdsk?
Have you tried running SFC /SCANNOW?
What is your first language, out of interest?

Please list what you have already tried, apart from fiddling with permissions.

I try to reset to default permission via all possible way including software's like Permission , Time Machine etc
I try to share.
I try to with full permission to users.
I try with take ownership
I try with with make owner
I try making another user with Admistrative privileges
Bit locker disabled
Reset TPM
Clear keys in Bios
Scandisk + check for bad sectors , HDD is OK

x BlueRobot · Jan 18, 2024

There doesn't seem to be any access denied errors in the log for that particular volume so I'm not sure

kelper · Jan 18, 2024

formingus said:
I try to reset to default permission via all possible way including software's like Permission , Time Machine etc
I try to share.
I try to with full permission to users.
I try with take ownership
I try with with make owner
I try making another user with Admistrative privileges
Bit locker disabled
Reset TPM
Clear keys in Bios
Scandisk + check for bad sectors , HDD is OK

I did ask, "Please list what you have already tried, apart from fiddling with permissions."

Have you tried SFC /SCANNOW? And Chkdsk. I you don't reply I'll stop trying to help you.

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

x BlueRobot said:
There doesn't seem to be any access denied errors in the log for that particular volume so I'm not sure

I told you that Is a very strange problem. I will end while transferring files to another HDD format and get it done.
But was very curious about what it could be. Anyway, thank you very much for trying to help. All the best

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formingus · Jan 18, 2024

kelper said:
I did ask, "Please list what you have already tried, apart from fiddling with permissions."

Have you tried SFC /SCANNOW? And Chkdsk. I you don't reply I'll stop trying to help you.

Sorry, due to language restrictions sometimes I get the wrong meaning of replay.

Yes, I try SFC, it says "Did not find any integrity violation"
Trying Share Drive
Clear TPM in BIOS
Merge HDD partitions bcz they was separted

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

kelper said:
I did ask, "Please list what you have already tried, apart from fiddling with permissions."

Have you tried SFC /SCANNOW? And Chkdsk. I you don't reply I'll stop trying to help you.

CHKDSK Found some errors , repair them but that's was not case, problem still remain

Winuser · Jan 18, 2024

Have you tried removing the drive in Disk Management, restarting your computer and letting Windows find it again?

MiguelAngel11 · Jan 18, 2024

Don't know if this will help, but backup all your data to an external disk and format the disk where Windows in installed. The problem will be solved. And before you start to shoot I know reinstalling all the programs is a tedious task, but as far I can see is the definitive solution. Take it or leave it. It's your choice.

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

Winuser said:
Have you tried removing the drive in Disk Management, restarting your computer and letting Windows find it again?

I didn't try that, but i removed it from the motherboard and changed the ports or drive letter. Still same
After you pointed me to Disk Management noticed that their drive letter is missing! This can be a problem...
I can change drive letter via other Partition tools, but on Disk Management everything is grayed out

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

MiguelAngel11 said:
Don't know if this will help, but backup all your data to an external disk and format the disk where Windows in installed. The problem will be solved. And before you start to shoot I know reinstalling all the programs is a tedious task, but as far I can see is the definitive solution. Take it or leave it. It's your choice.

Thanks, friend, that's my final option. I am trying to avoid formatting... Its 4TB and need to buy 4TB to do this...

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

Winuser said:
Have you tried removing the drive in Disk Management, restarting your computer and letting Windows find it again?

boombastik · Jan 18, 2024

Open cmd as admin and run:
chkdsk k: /f /x

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

This is intelligent reading of drive with Disk Genius - Did anyone had experience with those? Bitmap, MFT, Mirror MFT are Master boot table, did anyone think they have to do something ?

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

boombastik said:
Open cmd as admin and run:
chkdsk k: /f /x

Actually i have changed letter to D - Hear are results

Code:

C:\Windows\system32>chkdsk d: /f /x
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume dismounted.  All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.
Volume label is 4TB Data.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
  187822 file records processed.
File verification completed.
 Phase duration (File record verification): 3.02 seconds.
  2 large file records processed.
 Phase duration (Orphan file record recovery): 0.23 milliseconds.
  0 bad file records processed.
 Phase duration (Bad file record checking): 0.23 milliseconds.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
  99 reparse records processed.
  197902 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
 Phase duration (Index verification): 8.11 seconds.
  0 unindexed files scanned.
 Phase duration (Orphan reconnection): 21.99 milliseconds.
  0 unindexed files recovered to lost and found.
 Phase duration (Orphan recovery to lost and found): 0.55 milliseconds.
  99 reparse records processed.
 Phase duration (Reparse point and Object ID verification): 2.45 milliseconds.

Stage 3: Examining security descriptors ...
Security descriptor verification completed.
 Phase duration (Security descriptor verification): 252.82 milliseconds.
  5041 data files processed.
 Phase duration (Data attribute verification): 0.69 milliseconds.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
  39573624 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
 Phase duration (USN journal verification): 577.46 milliseconds.

Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

   3815445 MB total disk space.
   2484193 MB in 40882 files.
     11000 KB in 5042 indexes.
         0 KB in bad sectors.
    531190 KB in use by the system.
     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
1362660690 KB available on disk.

      2048 bytes in each allocation unit.
1953508349 total allocation units on disk.
 681330345 allocation units available on disk.
Total duration: 12.01 seconds (12017 ms).

C:\Windows\system32>

formingus · Jan 18, 2024

Going now, too late hear, Will answer tomorrow too all other replays. Thanks in advance for any replay and trying to help

antspants · Jan 18, 2024

In Disk Genius scanning result, some files or folders are tagged with a red or green deletion icon. The green one means the folder contains deleted data, and the red means it is the deleted file/folder.

What is in the “Orphaned Files“ folder showing in Disk Genius?
At a guess I’d say you ran some type of software on your drive and totally screwed it.

To whatever effect, I’d unmount the drive in Disk Management… then reboot a couple of times with the drive disconnected from the PC. Then remount the drive. If the drive doesn’t show, I’d then try changing the drive letter (as I said earlier in the thread) to something other than D: or K:
This all may seem pointless but you haven’t got anything to lose. I have rediscovered drives before, screwing around like this.

Winuser · Jan 18, 2024

formingus said:
I didn't try that, but i removed it from the motherboard and changed the ports or drive letter. Still same
After you pointed me to Disk Management noticed that their drive letter is missing! This can be a problem...
I can change drive letter via other Partition tools, but on Disk Management everything is grayed out

Could the drive itself be the problem?

antspants · Jan 18, 2024

Winuser said:
Could the drive itself be the problem?

That would be my guess. Or at the least needs to be wiped reformatted/partitioned.

Winuser · Jan 18, 2024

antspants said:
That would be my guess. Or at the least needs to be wiped reformatted/partitioned.

If the drive is the problem I hope they can recover any data that they don't want to lose.

antspants · Jan 18, 2024

Winuser said:
If the drive is the problem I hope they can recover any data that they don't want to lose.

By the looks of the results of his screenshot of Disk Genius, there are only a couple of folders left. There is a folder called “MyAppsBackUP” that has been deleted by the looks, not much else left. This is why I think they have run something on the drive and screwed it. But I guess.