Recovering Boot Drive

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Wonkie

Wonkie

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Motherboard - MSI Z270 SLI Plus
CPU - i7-8700k
GPU - 1080
SSD - HP 550 256 gb SSD (Boot Drive)
HDD - Barracuda 2 TB Hard Drive

This morning, I woke up to my PC booting up to black screen and flickering underscore and turns out there was something wrong with my boot drive, so I booted up the Windows OS with a USB and it worked and I see this, my SSD still has the OS files inside but for some reason they aren't getting detected and booting. So instead of formatting my SSD and doing a clean install, is there a way to save my Boot drive and save everything? Or is it not worth the trouble? (There isn't anything that is valuable to me in my SSD, just wondering what I could do instead of redownloading everything)
 

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saving your stuff by copy/paste will serve no purpose as the new drive will still not be bootable.
and using an image snapshot program, like Macrium, will also not be useful as whatever has happened to this drive will get replicated to the new one.
assuming the drive is still good, i would be starting from scratch - delete those first three partitions and let Windows create new ones as it deems fit.
if the drive has gone pear-shaped, doing the fresh install should highlight that.
 
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