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by enricorox
19 Mar 2021, 10:25
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Partitions recover after failed Windows update
Replies: 8
Views: 2988

Re: Partitions recover after failed Windows update


[...] the fact that you only seem to be a middleman when it comes to information gathering makes it only worse.


You're right I am trying to help a friend.


Bitlocker partitions do not fall from the sky and do not appear out of nothing.


I though so too but you can see this article from HP ...
by enricorox
18 Mar 2021, 17:27
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Partitions recover after failed Windows update
Replies: 8
Views: 2988

Re: Partitions recover after failed Windows update

It fails to boot again (because of corrupted EFI partition).
Even before BitLocker partition seemed good because it asked the recovery key.
Long story short: I don't have this key, BitLocker was activated by HP and we didn't know it.
(See here for the complete discussion of how I came up to this ...
by enricorox
15 Mar 2021, 11:48
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Partitions recover after failed Windows update
Replies: 8
Views: 2988

Re: Partitions recover after failed Windows update

I have no spare disks nor Windows PC (Linux user here), so I've used a Windows 10 installation pendrive.

After assigning a letter to the 3 corrupted partitions with diskpart> assign letter=<letter> I was able to run chkdsk /F <letter>:
and it successfully recovered both NTFS volumes.

Now the ...
by enricorox
12 Mar 2021, 12:35
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Partitions recover after failed Windows update
Replies: 8
Views: 2988

Re: Partitions recover after failed Windows update

Thank you for fast response.

In every partition gparted says:
Impossibile rilevare il file system. Motivi possibili:
- Il file system è danneggiato
- Il file system è sconosciuto
- Non è disponibile alcun file system (non formattato)
- Manca il device /dev/sdc2

That in english means:
Impossible ...
by enricorox
11 Mar 2021, 20:07
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Partitions recover after failed Windows update
Replies: 8
Views: 2988

Partitions recover after failed Windows update

Hi guys!
Windows was installing an update but failed to reboot.
When I power on It gived me an error saying to install an OS (code F30).
It doesn't seem an HW failure because it passed all HP Diagnostic Test checks.

However now I have a partition table with all partitions corrupted ( GParted red ...