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Dev Drive gone missing on recovery #119

Closed bizinbarefeet closed 1 month ago

bizinbarefeet commented 2 months ago

KB5037771 got stuck installing for the past week. So I tried to recover my Win11 PC.

When the recovery completed my files were still all there as expected with the exception of the Dev drive containing my Github Repos.

So where is it? How do I get it all back?

adrastogi commented 2 months ago

Tagging @AdamBraden. Could you please file a Feedback Hub item for this? You can invoke Feedback Hub via [Windows]+[f] and paste the link here so we can more easily find your information on the back end. The link can be found at the bottom of the feedback report. Please use "Developer Platform -> Dev Drive" for the Category.

bizinbarefeet commented 2 months ago

Yep. Did that as well.

adrastogi commented 2 months ago

Do you remember the title you used for the feedback item, or any other details that might be able to help with tracking it down? (I tried searching against the title and keywords used in this GitHub issue but was unsuccessful.)

If you were logged into the Feedback Hub (e.g., with an MSA), you could click on the 'Feedback' entry in the left-hand navigation, and then 'My feedback' to see a list of reports. Clicking on the entry for the report you submitted should show a 'Share' link in the upper-right that you can use to generate a link.

bizinbarefeet commented 2 months ago

Try this

It was one of many requests I lodged with all the Microsoft sites this week

https://aka.ms/AAqkd1m

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Do you remember the title you used for the feedback item, or any other details that might be able to help with tracking it down? (I tried searching against the title and keywords used in this GitHub issue but was unsuccessful.)

If you were logged into the Feedback Hub (e.g., with an MSA), you could click on the 'Feedback' entry in the left-hand navigation, and then 'My feedback' to see a list of reports. Clicking on the entry for the report you submitted should show a 'Share' link in the upper-right that you can use to generate a link.

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adrastogi commented 2 months ago

Thanks! I see it and will get it routed internally. Would you be able to explain in a bit more detail what you did to try to recover the PC? Was it a specific option under System > Recovery in the Settings app?

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adrastogi commented 1 month ago

A couple other questions on top of the prior question about Recovery:

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

Correct

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A couple other questions on top of the prior question about Recovery:

If you go to System > Storage > Disks & volumes, could you confirm that you don't see the Dev Drive volume listed there? If you run diskmgmt.msc, do you see any partitions that might map to your dev drive? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/119#issuecomment-2135763438, or unsubscribe https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AEGG2LQFXMT3X3LCIEYWVSLZES4SNAVCNFSM6AAAAABIIAI7NGVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDCMZVG43DGNBTHA. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: @.***>

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

Exactly.

Tried an increasing series of assistance techniques.

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A couple other questions on top of the prior question about Recovery:

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nmoinvaz commented 1 month ago

@bizinbarefeet, have you see this issue https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/116?

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

No, but it doesn't look like it applies to me as that person had a 'virtual' drive.

Mine was a created using the new Dev Drive option that Windows rolled out last year.

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@bizinbarefeet https://github.com/bizinbarefeet, have you see this issue #116 https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-Dev-Performance/issues/116?

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adrastogi commented 1 month ago

@bizinbarefeet would you mind running this command, just to completely rule this out? Get-ChildItem -Path C:\ -Filter *.vhdx -Recurse

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

I don't know what that is image

zooba commented 1 month ago

It's a PowerShell command. Use dir /s/b *.vhdx in Command Prompt.

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

OK - I don't use Powershell but this is the results image

zooba commented 1 month ago

Is that C:\DEV.vhdx file likely to be your Dev Drive? Perhaps the issue in #116 does actually apply, and you also ended up with a virtual drive instead of a real one without realising it (which might mean there's a different issue going on at creation time...)

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

OK. So, if the Dev Drive technology isn't dependable I don't want to use it. But I'd still like to get my data back. How would I go about that?

zooba commented 1 month ago

You should just be able to mount that VHDX and access it. Find it in Explorer and double-click.

Hopefully when the experts in Redmond wake up for the day, they'll be able to help more permanently. Knowing that it's a VHDX, it might be really easy to fix whatever the update broke. I believe the VHD automount configuration is pretty straightforward.

bizinbarefeet commented 1 month ago

Ah great - its back!! 😁

I'm going to move all the data off it now and delete it. We'll reconsider use of Dev drive next year when hopefully its more stable.

Steve, adrastogi - thank you both for your assistance. I really appreciate it.

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You should just be able to mount that VHDX and access it. Find it in Explorer and double-click.

Hopefully when the experts in Redmond wake up for the day, they'll be able to help more permanently. Knowing that it's a VHDX, it might be really easy to fix whatever the update broke. I believe the VHD automount configuration is pretty straightforward.

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adrastogi commented 1 month ago

@bizinbarefeet glad you were able to recover your data. Thanks for reporting it and trying Dev Drive. Tagging @AdamBraden to help close it since I don't have permissions.

decriptor commented 1 month ago

Is there any help for someone that allocated out an entire drive for dev drive (formatted the drive as ReFS) and reinstalled Windows 11? It just shows up as RAW now.

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I tried out a tool called DMDE and it appears that the data might still be there? image