NVME Drive Will Not Boot

So strange situation I have. I was upgrading from a GTX 1660 video card to a Radeon RX 6750 XT should have been an easy peasy changeout.

But my issue now is that while BIOS detects the hard drive, it will not boot into windows. The computer will only boot to BIOS, I can boot to USB live images etc no issue, but my internal nvme drive (that has all of my data on it) seems to have somehow become corrupted bc of a video card change!

I tried to go back to the original video card the GTX 1660 and same issue!

Full system specs are:
Antec High Current Gamer HCG650 PSU
https://ibb.co/7jRty5D

What do I need to do to get this booting again? I don't want to format and start over, I want to keep everything on this drive!!!

if it helps at all, I currently have a second SSD drive connected to the computer that boots into Ubuntu - my plan was to try to repair boot sector etc but I thought I should check with someone that knows what they are doing before I start screwing around and make data unrecoverable

Rustys said:

Check the boot order and make sure that the drive is selected.

Sometimes just moving a system can cause something to come loose.
Reseat the drive
Data Cables
Power Cables
RAM

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Boot order is set to the internal drive it's a nvme drive
I've taken it out, put it back in
Reseated the RAM as well - all good tehre, both sticks light up.

Still have the issue.

ughhhh, i was hoping to avoid wiping 😛

What is easiset way to copy the data from booted into Ubuntu?

Bruce said:

at this stage I'm not saying wiping will be required, but there is that chance anyways, and for speed, instead of trying this, trying that, seeing if x,y,z works - sometimes I just bite that bullet and go straight for the big hammer and save all that middle work will has a good chance of proving futile.
but hey - if you get lucky, you'll save having to reload everything - that's the gamble.

so once you have the PC booting into Ubuntu, and you have the old drive connected, does Ubuntu see it and can you copy data off it?

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so `lsblk` shows the drive....I am hoping that's a good sign.....

so i'm having issues mounting the drive in my ubuntu....I keep getting this.

owner@owner-MS-7C56:~$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p4 /mnt/nvmeWindows is hibernated, refused to mount.The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0).Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount.Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition is in anunsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernationor fast restarting.)ntfs_attr_pread_i: ntfs_pread failed: Input/output errorFailed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output errorFailed to read NTFS $Bitmap: Input/output errorNTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it's aSoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windowsthen reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is veryimportant! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activateit and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g./dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the 'dmraid' documentationfor more details.


How can I shutdown the partition from ubuntu so I can mount the partition?