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Hey, here's what went down w/ my laptop:
It's a Windows 10 ASUS X540UA-DS51 laptop.
The hard drive got corrupted, to the point where it cannot even recognize that there's a C: drive, only the emergency X: drive (I know it's part of the C: drive). And no, I did not back up anything. My fault.
I already put a windows 10 installer on my external hard drive.
Here's the thing:
I was following a tutorial on how to clean install. It said to remove all partitions of the hard drive in order for an unallocated space partition to appear, and I remove all of them as told, and the only thing that remained was my external hard drive partition.
But it's weird. Sometimes when I restart, either:
Either way, there are 2 common problems:
I'll break it down:
GOOD:
WEIRD:
BAD:
UNSURE:
I got some questions:
Other notes:
I'm using my older HP laptop to type this up, & it was also used to install the media creation tool onto my external hard drive.
AS OF NOW:
Windows Setup is....setup on my laptop.
The 4 Drive 0 partitions are up on the "Where do you want to install Windows?" step.
The message "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files." is sitting at the bottom of the window thereafter I selected drive 0 partition 3 and attempted to click Next.
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It's a Windows 10 ASUS X540UA-DS51 laptop.
The hard drive got corrupted, to the point where it cannot even recognize that there's a C: drive, only the emergency X: drive (I know it's part of the C: drive). And no, I did not back up anything. My fault.
I already put a windows 10 installer on my external hard drive.
Here's the thing:
I was following a tutorial on how to clean install. It said to remove all partitions of the hard drive in order for an unallocated space partition to appear, and I remove all of them as told, and the only thing that remained was my external hard drive partition.
But it's weird. Sometimes when I restart, either:
- All partitions for disk 0 either miraculously reappear
- Just one disk 0 partition for unallocated space, except for the fact that the partition is 0.0mb.
Either way, there are 2 common problems:
- When I refresh, all instances of disk 0 partitions disappear, leaving me with the disk 1 (external hard drive) partitions
- When I click the New button (only available if there's only a drive 0 unallocated space partition of 0.0mb) and attempt to put in a predetermined amount of megabytes (I kno u're supposed to put it gigabyte amounts, just converted into mb), the computer insists that I need to chose 0mb in order to create a new partition, and even then I still can't select apply.
I'll break it down:
GOOD:
- Laptop can boot.
- Can press esc to bring up the boot option menu to either my ext. hard drive, Windows 10 (just the WinRE), or ASUS BIOS UEFI.
- Can access the WinRE menu.
- Can access diskpart.
- Diskpart can clean the disk.
- What it shows for disk 0 (internal hard drive) & disk 1 (external hard drive) for list disk:
| Disk ### | Status | Size | Free | Dyn | Gpt |
| Disk 0 | Online | 931GB | 0B | * | |
| Disk 1 | Online | 931GB | 899GB |
- What it shows for list volume (I think the last volume/volume 4 is the ext. hard drive):
| Volume ### | Ltr | Label | Fs | Type | Size | Status | Info |
| Volume 0 | E | DVD-ROM | 0 B | No Media | |||
| Volume 1 | C | RAW | Partition | 930GB | Healthy | ||
| Volume 2 | RAW | Partition | 800MB | Healthy | |||
| Volume 3 | RAW | Partition | 260MB | Healthy | Hidden | ||
| Volume 4 | D | ESD-USB | FAT32 | Partition | 32GB | Healthy |
- What it shows for list partition (after selecting disk 0):
| Partition ### | Type | Size | Offset |
| Partition 1 | System | 260MB | 1024KB |
| Partition 2 | Reserved | 16MB | 261MB |
| Partition 3 | Primary | 930GB | 277MB |
| Partition 4 | Recovery | 800MB | 930GB |
- Can get to the Windows 10 setup.
- Even tho I deleted the partitions, they miraculously reappear after several bootups
WEIRD:
- Seems to consider what's supposed to be the C: drive the "D:" drive, and substitutes my external hard drive as a "C:" drive.
BAD:
- Computer usually takes a WHILE to boot up. Sometimes I have to turn off and try again if nothing shows.
- Is this a remnant trait of previous hard drive corruption? (I swore it mighta been a display driver issue, as I was able to go on my regular desktop one last time, but it was incredibly laggy and there was scrambled text under shortcut icons, windows explorer, etc.)
- Cannot use chkdsk.
- Diskpart cannot create a partition
- Diskpart cannot format a volume
- The 'format fs=ntfs' and 'format fs=ntfs quick' diskpart inputs don't work
- None of the disk 0 partitions are usable.
- Unable to use system restore
- Unable to go to previous version
- Unable to use startup repair
- Unable to use system image recovery
- Startup options is gone.
- Can't format any of the disk 0 partitions, whether it be the Windows Setup or the cmd prompt. In fact, it shows that it's "Error: 0x80070057".
- The message "Windows can't be installed on drive 0 partition X." shows up for every drive 0 partition, except the third one. Here's the info:
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- Clicking Refresh removes all instances of Drive 0's partitions. If I 1st delete all drive 0 partitions, turn off the laptop, and then boot on the computer again and return to the "Where do you want to install Windows" step during Windows Setup, it shows a Drive 0 Unallocated space, except both total size and free space are 0.0mb. This cycle of weirdness comes full circle when I turn off & turn on the laptop only to find all 4 drive 0 partitions back on the menu again.
- A small "Good": When there's only unallocated space available for drive 0, the New button is selectable...
- ...Only to find out I cannot make another partition. Windows 10 insists that 0.0mb is the way to go for a partition, except even setting it zero still does nothing (of course). them at first, all 4 partitions of disk 0 still pop somehow.
- My ASUS laptop has an optic drive, but because of its current state, it is unable to open up.
- Upgrade to Windows 10 option (yes, I tried it, even tho Windows 10 is already in the hard drive) doesn't work.
UNSURE:
- Unable to convert GPT to MBE. I know GPT is pretty much the "UEFI" to how MBE is pretty much the "BIOS" in a sense, it terms of new and old software. Not even sure if this is the source of the issue.
- Load driver option under "Where do you want to install Windows?" menu is unselectable. Don't think I need to use this.
- Extend option is same as above, except I'm unsure if I need to use it.
- When I use diskpart to list vdisk, there are no virtual disks to show. Not sure if this needed for my situation.
I got some questions:
- How can I make a valid partition in order to proceed the clean install?
- I heard that you may need to unplug your ext. hard drive (the same one that contains the windows 10 install media) at some point. At what point do I unplug my external hard drive exactly? The moment after I get past the partition step? When I unplug before the partition step, the installation requests me to have a media driver inserted...
- What's strange is this: There's a note that states that if the install media is in the DVD drive or USB drive (which it is), you can safely remove it for this step. Which I did...so now I'm unable to get past the "Select the driver to install" screen...
- ...unless I go back to the windows 10 setup, plug my ext. drive back in, and return to the partition issue once more.
- I see that there's a Product Key step that's supposed to occur before the partition setup. I have never seen that window pop-up yet during all my attempts to install Windows 10 onto my ASUS laptop. Is it because my product key is still intact? I'm guessing I can see it when I boot up the ASUS UEFI BIOS?
Other notes:
I'm using my older HP laptop to type this up, & it was also used to install the media creation tool onto my external hard drive.
AS OF NOW:
Windows Setup is....setup on my laptop.
The 4 Drive 0 partitions are up on the "Where do you want to install Windows?" step.
The message "We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one. For more information, see the Setup log files." is sitting at the bottom of the window thereafter I selected drive 0 partition 3 and attempted to click Next.
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