Hard Drive "Invalid" and "Bad Disk" after OS Install

Arguably

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Dec 18, 2016
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The other day I installed Fedora 25 to dual-boot with Windows 10. I have an SSD and a 900GB HDD, Windows being installed on the SSD with 700~ gb of the HDD used for extra storage, and Fedora being installed to the remaining space on the HDD.

Fedora works and boots fine, but now in Windows I cannot mount the entire HDD. Looking in disk management, Windows says the drive is in-valid, and looking in MiniTool Partition manager, it says it is a bad disk, and refuses to convert from dynamic to basic. Now, since Fedora is working fine with this bad disk, I'm left wondering what's going on and what to do, as MiniTool won't convert it to a basic disk, although might that be because there are roughly 5 partitions on there?

Fedora also cannot see the 700GB partition, though it can see its own just fine.

Would appreciate any help.
 
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Hi there Arguably,

Most probably your drive is failing. Different OSes respond in a different way to failing drives. This is why, the drive is recognized under a different OS.

If you have data stored on it, you can back it up. You may need to use some data recovery tools. After that, you can test it so you can take a look at the SMART report.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)

Hi there Arguably,

Most probably your drive is failing. Different OSes respond in a different way to failing drives. This is why, the drive is recognized under a different OS.

If you have data stored on it, you can back it up. You may need to use some data recovery tools. After that, you can test it so you can take a look at the SMART report.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)

 
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