Laptop fails to boot after partition resizing
Dear forum,
I am currently in the process of shrinking a 500 GB hdd system drive to a 256GB SSD, which i will replace it with. The hdd was at 120GB, so in theory after shrinking I could clone the drive. Window's own application cannot shrink it down enough (even though there's plenty of unused space and I was referred to Aomei by an article. I started the process, the pre windows finished up, but now i can't boot and the system is stuck in the repair loop.
What can be done? There are files on the drive i wish to keep.
Thanks for the help
I am currently in the process of shrinking a 500 GB hdd system drive to a 256GB SSD, which i will replace it with. The hdd was at 120GB, so in theory after shrinking I could clone the drive. Window's own application cannot shrink it down enough (even though there's plenty of unused space and I was referred to Aomei by an article. I started the process, the pre windows finished up, but now i can't boot and the system is stuck in the repair loop.
What can be done? There are files on the drive i wish to keep.
Thanks for the help
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Unfortunately, you are in data recovery, until your drive is working again. Please use your backup software, such as Backupper (BU) or PA to backup your entire disk, before attempting repairs.
After creating a full disk backup, you could try the classic commands:
Diskpart > lis dis > sel dis # > lis par > lis vol
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd
Bcdboot <Letter>:/Windows
Advanced instructions:
https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-rebuild-the-bcd-in-windows-2624508
Could you please reply with the answers to:
1) Which motherboard mode Legacy-BIOS, UEFI-CSM, UEFI-nonCSM?
2) What PC brand, year, model #, desktop or laptop?
3) HDD, SSD 2.5", SSD M.2 SATA, SSD M.2 NVMe?
4) Hard Drive partition table MBR or GPT?
5) Aomei product tier Standard, Pro, Other?
6) Version of Windows, 10, 11, Home, Pro, Enterprise?
7) Please post a screenshot of your error, and Diskpart > lis dis > sel dis # > lis par > lis vol
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx1HyPJEMTrNNzBkaFo2TDRCZ00/view?resourcekey=0-5uM4FV4PFYn4yIFBVV8BRA
Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary. Does not work with some monitors.
https://www.ubackup.com/help/create-bootable-disk.html
Partition Assistant WinPE USB
https://www.diskpart.com/help/make-bootable-cd-wizard.html
Add custom drivers, such as NVMe, if necessary.
Aomei WinPE 2.0 Builder USB
https://www.ubackup.com/pe-builder.html
Partition Assistant, Backupper, Recuva, 7zip, OSF Mount, CPU-Z, Bootice, diskmgmt.msc. Does not support any additional drivers, such as some internal NVMe disks.
Free tools not from Aomei:
LazeSoft - Windows boot repair
https://www.lazesoft.com
Hirens Boot PE - live USB tool suite
https://www.hirensbootcd.org
160 utilities, old BU 6.5.1, PA 9.2.1. Put custom drivers, such as NVMe drivers, into the “CustomDrivers” folder. Hirens is not recommended in combination with Ventoy USB.
EasyBCD - Application
https://easybcd.en.softonic.com
https://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk
And, you can use AOMEI PE Builder to create Winpe: http://www2.aomeisoftware.com/download/pe/2.0/full/PEBuilder.exe
1) UEFI I think, no idea about csm
2) Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop
3) 2,5 Seagate HDD
4) GPT
5) Standard
6) Windows 10 Home
I tried to back up the drive up with Aomei Backupper to a separate working drive through another computer, but failed.
Unfortunately, I can no longer access windows system repair toll either. When I try to boot it from the hdd, it initiates Dell SupportAssist, which check the memory and than says its fine, but thats the end of that.
Did you use PA-PreOS Mode?
At every option I used what the software recommended.
Should I create WinPE media on a usb and try to boot it from there?
Many thanks.
I have created WinPE media using aomei and ultraiso software, now on a usb stick. However I would like to wait for your confirmation as I don't want to further worsen the problem. This is what the stick currently contains(png, do excuse the foreign language).
Now I can confirm that the computer does boot up on a different drive and all hardware besides the hdd works well, althought I believe this was rather evident to you and doesn't help us much.
If not, please boot the computer from WinPE USB, then take a screenshot of WIndows Disk Management.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
I managed to boot from the aomei WinPe, backed the entire disk up. What now? I can't seem to access the dumbed down version of windows the WinPe is supposed to be, only the aomei backupper, and so I cannot take a screenshot of windows disk management.
Can I now access the backed up files from a different computer? I am sorry I ask so much but I don't have sufficient knowledge to do this and I rather ask than experiment.
Thank you for guiding me through this!
I get this error message.
@admin
Thanks for the help. I managed to recover files using BU pro, and that's basically all I needed. I did lose a windows key in this operation but that's on me.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me!
Partition Assistant, Backupper, Recuva, 7zip, OSF Mount, CPU-Z, Bootice, diskmgmt.msc. Does not support any additional drivers, such as some internal NVMe disks.
https://www.ubackup.com/pe-builder.html