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I have two hard drives configured as a simple layout storage space in Windows 10 Home. The entire virtual drive is formatted as a single large ReFS partition mounted on D. The other day I enabled Windows Insider updates and ever since I rebooted, I can't access the D drive. It's still mounted, but I get an error message that the drive is not formatted.
What steps can I take to figure this out?
njbair
Posted 2017-08-19T01:12:29.470
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This issue was recently discovered in Windows 10 (I work for Microsoft). There is a fix coming, but for now, try to go back to a previous version of Windows and don't upgrade until the fix reaches the Windows Insider Program. If you wait about a month or 2, you should be good.
I don't have enough reputation to comment, so I posted this as an answer even though it doesn't really belong here.
user1574981
Posted 2017-08-19T01:12:29.470
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Here is a procedure that worked for me, at least for the moment :
The assigned drive is reappearing and one might try to backup the data from there
hope that helped - cheers
alX
Posted 2017-08-19T01:12:29.470
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I just realized that going back to a previous version of windows likely won't help since the OS upgrade might have corrupted your filesystem. It's still worth a shot, but if you still can't mount the volume after the rollback, we'll probably need to develop a special tool to help repair your ReFS volume. – user1574981 – 2017-08-28T22:11:28.200
Thanks for this. I ended up reinstalling Windows 10 from scratch and fortunately had backups of almost everything on the ReFS partition. I opted not to enroll the new installation in the Windows Insider program for now, and so far everything is working fine. – njbair – 2017-08-29T21:26:27.063