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Advice on fixing corrupted filesystem

Anonymous
2025-03-06T01:55:22+00:00

hi guys, my zbook laptop, which i bought refurbished a few years ago, came with Win11 and something like around 7TBW on the clock. Nothing much, but fairly used. Crystal Disk showed around 80%. Worked perfectly, until this day, i had woken it up from sleep, only for it to freeze, throw a BSOD, restart, but instead of booting, showed a message saying that its missing a device or smth. Tried retrying, it said its missing winload.efi. The disk wasnt accessible even from Debian. Loaded up a bootable, repaired it, it somehow made the installation bootable, but the drive letters are all mixed up and it remembers files on locations where they just arent (lots of drivers, also tools like root CMD, disk manager, etc...). Any advice?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-06T08:29:27+00:00

    Hello, thanks for replying.

    SeaTools tests passed. (not posting image bcuz it just says it passed, no additional info)

    The drive has 31 TBW on the clock, havent remembered correctly. Life is at 78%.

    As i previously stated, the drive's file table is prolly corrupted, so nothing can be opened nor read from it - cannot install anything. Only works in Safe Mode for some reason. Diskpart in recovery showed mixed up drive letters, with the C: letter being assigned to a whole different partition on a different drive.

    I managed to make the Windows partition mountable on Debian, so one of the options could be backing up the files onto the drive with Linux and reinstalling Windows, but i don't wanna do that straight away.

    LMK if i should just backup and wipe the drive or proceed with bothering repairing it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-06T02:58:30+00:00

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-06T02:19:26+00:00

    Ran it in the recv, it scanned and found nothing.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-06T02:10:30+00:00

    the auto-repair made it actually bootable, but its just that C: isnt even accessible from explorer and most of the system tools and drivers are inaccessible either. Neither are any files, like latest, Download or Documents - they just show a correct thumbnail, but a wrong path. Every file leads to nowhere.

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  5. Airbus A350 7,355 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-06T02:03:57+00:00

    Hello,

    To fix a corrupt file system, from the Command Prompt inside the recovery drive, type chkdsk C: /r and push enter. This will repair the file system. If C: doesn't work, try other letters like D and E.

    If you still can't boot after that, try Startup Repair and see if that can fix the problem.

    Let me know how this goes.

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