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System Volume on Disk is Corrupt
Hi everyone. Here's a complex problem.
Preface:
While I was on my PC as usual one day, everything froze except the cursor, and I had to reboot. But upon restarting, I was presented with two options. 'Repair (recommended)' and 'Start Windows normally'.
(The following happens every time, and is still valid, nothing has changed).
Upon selecting 'repair', startup repair starts, runs, and it identifies the problem 'System Volume on Disk is Corrupt'. Same is the case when I boot with the Windows installation DVD and try startup repair.
'Start Windows Normally' brings up the 'Starting Windows' screen, it stays there, no animation takes place for about a minute, and then the Windows logo animates in, and the computer restarts.
Please note:
I'll refer to:
New HDD on which I installed Windows: Spare HDD
The HDD with the corrupted Windows: Bad HDD (has 4 partitions, 2 for data and 1 for windows, and 1 system reserved partition). it is 1.5 years old.
Corrupted Windows partition: Bad partition
P.S. I don't have an image/backup of the bad partition.
What I did next:
Installed Windows 7 on a spare hard drive, and attached the bad HDD as secondary. All my data was found to be safe. Except for the partition which is supposed to be the Windows partition. It is not getting recognized as a readable partition. Windows sees it as 'raw' partition, unformatted. Of course, I won't format it.
I installed PartitionWizard and checked the contents of the unreadable partition. All the files and folders on the bad partition are intact, nothing has gone. But the problem is, it's unreadable. I also tried rebuilding the MBR of that disk via PartitionWizard, nothing. No change.
So in a nutshell, the whole question is:
One of the partitions (which happens to be the Windows partition) on my hard drive has corrupted, and my computer can no longer boot up. If I try accessing the partition from another Windows environment, it shows up as unformatted (raw). Although all files are intact, and readable by PartitionWizard. Question is, how do I make this partition readable (by Windows) again?
I believe, once it is made readable, I MIGHT be able to boot from it.
Thanks for any help guys. I'm running the same thread over at How-To Geek Forums, but things got a bit complex there, however you can check it out for reference. I'm looking for feasible solutions, and will try them.
Thanks in advance!