Once i found out the user folder was gone but data is still on the drive i realized its probably just lost on the drive. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, made separate threads because i thought it was just a boot problem until i found out the windows folder was gone! Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help. Please boot into Windows recovery environment and run commend below to post back the results: What's the error message when you try to boot into the OS on HDD. Can you still see the boot menu for both of your system now?Ģ. There is no wonder that you have many recovery partitions after upgrading to Windows 10.Īccording to Microsoft, the previous Windows version recovery partition will be nonfunctional, so you can delete the previous recovery partition to free up some disk space.īut, let's not do this at this time before we repair your OS on the HDD.Īt this time, please confirm these questions also:ġ.

I have also see another thread you submit, and know more information about your question.įirstly, please know that Every time when you upgrade Windows to the next version, the upgrade program will create a recovery partition if it detects that there is no sufficient space on your recovery partition (GPT disk) or system reserved partition I tired doing this with Ubuntu live usb but the options are greyed out? Is there a way to install windows again into this directory so i can extract all my files (picts, vid, documents, etc) and boot into it like normal?

Is there any way (recover software/ commands) i can use that may restore what i believe is the hard drive file structure that may have been deleted? The used space is 339GB and from what i calculated i was able to back up 96GB from the drive (including the windows folder i tried copying over) meaning the drive is reporting 243GB used i cannot see via my SSD? That is probably wereĪll my content is being stored I dont think it is deleted!?!īefore i could access the drive i used commands in recovery disk that i think may now have damaged the disk more ex. *Worth noting i can view program files folder. So everything seems to be intact the drive is healthy and working fine, obviously boots with error, used recovery disk no help. Not sure if the update/ checkdisk/ dual booting caused this but something created 2 partitions and deleted everything in the windows folder Then i could view the drive, looking into the contents HDD everything seems fine but when i go into the windows directory nothing is there? I couldn't view the drive via dual boot SSD so i changed the drive letter I noticed two recovery partitions were added to the drive Rebooted right into check disk, hung for hours so i restarted, Updated a computer HDD had not used in a long time installed the new windows update worked fine,

User folder missing windows 10