Booting Windows from SSD impossible after faulty defragmentation
I am using a Windows 10-Ubuntu dual boot on my PC (Windows installed on SSD, Ubuntu on HDD, data partition used by both on same HDD) and a few days ago, while using Windows, the screen suddenly got black. The reason was maybe a unwanted defragmentation/optimization program that changed something on the SSD.
Since then, I was not able to boot from Windows again. When I try to start Windows out of Grub, it shows me the error
Failure writing sector 0x0 to 'hd1'
and I can only return to grub. When retrying, the error changes to
no such device: (name of device)
cannot get C/H/S values.
However, once I started up Ubuntu, I can access the drive without problems and extract all data from it, but this is not the case if I tried to start Windows in the session without rebooting the PC.
I already tried update-grub and a scan with badblocks, but none of these seemed to have an effect. I tried to repair it with a Windows installation stick but none of the options had an effect.
Does anyone have an idea what happened to the SSD and how to fix the problem?
windows-10 boot ssd grub
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I am using a Windows 10-Ubuntu dual boot on my PC (Windows installed on SSD, Ubuntu on HDD, data partition used by both on same HDD) and a few days ago, while using Windows, the screen suddenly got black. The reason was maybe a unwanted defragmentation/optimization program that changed something on the SSD.
Since then, I was not able to boot from Windows again. When I try to start Windows out of Grub, it shows me the error
Failure writing sector 0x0 to 'hd1'
and I can only return to grub. When retrying, the error changes to
no such device: (name of device)
cannot get C/H/S values.
However, once I started up Ubuntu, I can access the drive without problems and extract all data from it, but this is not the case if I tried to start Windows in the session without rebooting the PC.
I already tried update-grub and a scan with badblocks, but none of these seemed to have an effect. I tried to repair it with a Windows installation stick but none of the options had an effect.
Does anyone have an idea what happened to the SSD and how to fix the problem?
windows-10 boot ssd grub
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
SSDs don't defragmentation.
– GabrielaGarcia
Feb 9 at 0:33
This is true, but there are programs that try to optimize it by shifting data on it around. I have heard that there is no advantage from this and normally avoid it, but this time it happened accidentally.
– Florian Matz
Feb 10 at 19:14
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I am using a Windows 10-Ubuntu dual boot on my PC (Windows installed on SSD, Ubuntu on HDD, data partition used by both on same HDD) and a few days ago, while using Windows, the screen suddenly got black. The reason was maybe a unwanted defragmentation/optimization program that changed something on the SSD.
Since then, I was not able to boot from Windows again. When I try to start Windows out of Grub, it shows me the error
Failure writing sector 0x0 to 'hd1'
and I can only return to grub. When retrying, the error changes to
no such device: (name of device)
cannot get C/H/S values.
However, once I started up Ubuntu, I can access the drive without problems and extract all data from it, but this is not the case if I tried to start Windows in the session without rebooting the PC.
I already tried update-grub and a scan with badblocks, but none of these seemed to have an effect. I tried to repair it with a Windows installation stick but none of the options had an effect.
Does anyone have an idea what happened to the SSD and how to fix the problem?
windows-10 boot ssd grub
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
I am using a Windows 10-Ubuntu dual boot on my PC (Windows installed on SSD, Ubuntu on HDD, data partition used by both on same HDD) and a few days ago, while using Windows, the screen suddenly got black. The reason was maybe a unwanted defragmentation/optimization program that changed something on the SSD.
Since then, I was not able to boot from Windows again. When I try to start Windows out of Grub, it shows me the error
Failure writing sector 0x0 to 'hd1'
and I can only return to grub. When retrying, the error changes to
no such device: (name of device)
cannot get C/H/S values.
However, once I started up Ubuntu, I can access the drive without problems and extract all data from it, but this is not the case if I tried to start Windows in the session without rebooting the PC.
I already tried update-grub and a scan with badblocks, but none of these seemed to have an effect. I tried to repair it with a Windows installation stick but none of the options had an effect.
Does anyone have an idea what happened to the SSD and how to fix the problem?
windows-10 boot ssd grub
windows-10 boot ssd grub
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
edited Feb 8 at 21:42
Dave M
12.7k92838
12.7k92838
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
asked Feb 8 at 21:19
Florian MatzFlorian Matz
11
11
SSDs don't defragmentation.
– GabrielaGarcia
Feb 9 at 0:33
This is true, but there are programs that try to optimize it by shifting data on it around. I have heard that there is no advantage from this and normally avoid it, but this time it happened accidentally.
– Florian Matz
Feb 10 at 19:14
add a comment |
SSDs don't defragmentation.
– GabrielaGarcia
Feb 9 at 0:33
This is true, but there are programs that try to optimize it by shifting data on it around. I have heard that there is no advantage from this and normally avoid it, but this time it happened accidentally.
– Florian Matz
Feb 10 at 19:14
SSDs don't defragmentation.
– GabrielaGarcia
Feb 9 at 0:33
SSDs don't defragmentation.
– GabrielaGarcia
Feb 9 at 0:33
This is true, but there are programs that try to optimize it by shifting data on it around. I have heard that there is no advantage from this and normally avoid it, but this time it happened accidentally.
– Florian Matz
Feb 10 at 19:14
This is true, but there are programs that try to optimize it by shifting data on it around. I have heard that there is no advantage from this and normally avoid it, but this time it happened accidentally.
– Florian Matz
Feb 10 at 19:14
add a comment |
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SSDs don't defragmentation.
– GabrielaGarcia
Feb 9 at 0:33
This is true, but there are programs that try to optimize it by shifting data on it around. I have heard that there is no advantage from this and normally avoid it, but this time it happened accidentally.
– Florian Matz
Feb 10 at 19:14