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[Piuma]

After a couple of hours work> language set to english *uk(, but as you can see the qwerty has turned quite weird.
Then run Diskgenius searching for lost partitions... 12 which I quite don-t understand *actually it looks like a big disaster & mess to me* see screenshot number 17.
And finally, after many attempts, the diskpart- screenshot number 18 shows the right guess> both 0 and 1 are GPT.
Now please guide me through this 12 partitions, to optimize the disk 0.
FYI Disk 1 is ssd, and I would need suggestions about how to use it, for smoothing the system, operations or User Folders, for I still need to install office or similar and a pdf editor.
If you reckon that I have to format everything and reinstall clean, well, let-s say that I-m available.
Waiting for your help and kind support to delete my concerns.

 

[xilolee]

Good!
I don't understand why you searched lost partitions...

You can set the Italian keyboard in Windows options.

 

[Piuma]

lost partitions: I was just trying to figure out the app...
Anyway, as shown in the screenshot #19, I have right now a local disk (Z): I've no idea where it comes from and what it is. And BTW it's not showing in Disk management (see screenshot #20)

 

[xilolee]

It could be the ESP (EFI system partition).
But It shouldn't be visible.
It will probably disappear after a reboot.

 

[Piuma]

After restoring the system to a previous point , the machine got stuck and did many attempts to troubleshoot. None would work, apart restarting from the command prompt.
I had to download the w10 media creation tool on bootable usb from another PC, and reinstall from zero.
Later on I've found out that the disk 1 is asking for initialization but it wouldn't allow me to do it, neither as gpt or as mbr.
Drivers have been installed.
And obviously before installing the new w10 I had converted both disk 0 and disk 1 to gpt.
What next? Diskgenius or a scan sfc for bad sectors?
BTW disk 1 is ssd.

 

[xilolee]

I.e., you successfully installed w10 in disk 0 (what kind of disk it is?), but disk 1 (an SSD) is unusable... Correct?

 

[Piuma]

Hi, I m totally at loss, as it is my PC. Please, have a look at screenshot.
Pc starts in bios mode directly and drives me to the screenshot

 

[xilolee]

If you click "show details" (mostra dettagli) in the second picture, what does it show?

 

[Piuma]

It says that it's not gpt

 

[xilolee]

Launch these commands:

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
detail disk
list partition
list volume
exit

I get (something like):

Read More:

C:\>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: XILOLEE

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          232 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 1    Online         3726 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 2    Online          465 GB    17 MB        *

DISKPART> select disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> detail disk

Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250GB
Disk ID: {D313364C-5675-4A63-9E92-E51D4FB95F63}
Type   : SATA
Status : Online
Path   : 0
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1100)#ATA(C00T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : Yes
Pagefile Disk  : Yes
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : Yes
Clustered Disk  : No

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 1     C   WINDOWS      NTFS   Partition     99 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2     D   DATA         NTFS   Partition    131 GB  Healthy    Pagefile
  Volume 3         ESP          FAT32  Partition    299 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 4         RECOVERY     NTFS   Partition   1000 MB  Healthy    Hidden

DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    System             299 MB    18 KB
  Partition 2    Reserved            16 MB   301 MB
  Partition 3    Primary             99 GB   317 MB
  Partition 4    Recovery          1000 MB   100 GB
  Partition 5    Primary            131 GB   101 GB

DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     J                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1     C   WINDOWS      NTFS   Partition     99 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 2     D   DATA         NTFS   Partition    131 GB  Healthy    Pagefile
  Volume 3         ESP          FAT32  Partition    299 MB  Healthy    System
  Volume 4         RECOVERY     NTFS   Partition   1000 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 5     F   DATA         NTFS   Partition    931 GB  Healthy
  Volume 6     G   XILO         NTFS   Partition    931 GB  Healthy
  Volume 7     H   BROTH        NTFS   Partition    931 GB  Healthy
  Volume 8     I   SISTERRR     NTFS   Partition    931 GB  Healthy
  Volume 9     E   DATA         NTFS   Partition    465 GB  Healthy

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

C:\>

 

[Piuma]

20241025_002436.mp4

 

[Piuma]

If you click "show details" (mostra dettagli) in the second picture, what does it show?

20241025_003817.mp4

 

[Piuma]

If you click "show details" (mostra dettagli) in the second picture, what does it show?

 

[Piuma]

Ok I've managed to install Windows after converting the disk 0 to gpt.
Disk manager keeps showing a certain disk 1 to be initialised. But it's impossible to do it, as its capacity is 0 Gb and the system says that the device is unexistent.

Plus I can't find my ssd partition as part of the hard drive.

 

[xilolee]

Launch these commands:

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0
detail disk
select disk 1
detail disk
exit

Copy the result and paste it here (perhaps in a code tag).

 

[Piuma]

Sorry,
didn't study coding

 

[xilolee]

I didn't understand this:

Plus I can't find my ssd partition as part of the hard drive.

Among the various details of the disk 1, we can read Current Read-only State : No and Read-only : No.
This command should resolve it (post the result):

diskpart
select disk 1
attributes disk clear readonly
detail disk

 

[Piuma]

YEs, it's not readonly anymore .
Apart from this achievemnt, it's 0Gb, unknown, and impossible to initialize (msinfo32 in attachment).

Regarding my 24 Gb ssd on the HDD, I remember that it would appear in Disk management, and indeed the specs of my laptop confirm the above. (picture in attachment)

 

[xilolee]

Launch these commands:

diskpart
select disk 1
clean all
create partition primary id=ebd0a0a2-b9e5-4433-87c0-68b6b72699c7
detail disk
exit

Copy the text result and paste it here.

 

[Piuma]

I went in diskpart , list disk, only disk 0 now: disk 1 keeps appearing and desappearing.
Listed disk management and there it is!
I cannot launch the commands above.

I also wonder whether the ssd partition might have migrated in disk 0, but can't find those 24 GB