I have a Alienware 15 R3 laptop with a sata hard drive, recently I bought a 2tb m.2 ssd drive that I was planning to dual boot with while keeping my old sata drive as a secondary as I was not ready to completely start over yet. I thought I could keep my old set up on the sata while having a fresh install of windows 10 on the new M.2 SSD drive.

It was working good for a few days, but last thing I did was boot into my old Windows to work on some projects, then I shut down and went to bed. I woke up this morning and it automatically booted into my M.2 ssd, when I logged in it suddenly started flashing a white screen and I couldn't open anything.

I restarted and it showed a message that it was automatically repairing something, then it would just shows a black screen.

I tried switching to my old sata and it showed it was scanning the disk and it might take hours. After about 10 minutes it went into a black screen as well.

Now both my hard drives have a black screen. I spent a few hours searching for a solution to no avail so I decided to reinstall windows on the m2 ssd drive since i didn’t really have anything on there yet, after it finished I looked at the contents of my sata drive and it shows my Windows folder as a blank Windows file with 0 KB.

What the heck, they should have measures to prevent deleting the Windows folder.

I think it had something to do with me dualbooting where I switched from one Windows 10 to another and it checked the drive for consistency.

But it deleted windows on both drives so I don’t see how it’s a damaged hard drive issue when I just got the m2 and it was a fresh install.

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Is there anyway to recover the Windows folder?