Mark Harmstone

In that case it's probably impossible to say what's gone wrong - sorry. I'd wait for gmartctl to finish, and bin it if it finds anything, or reformat if not.

One of the things I'd like to do with this project is add a mode where it uses kexec rather than UEFI, which would have the side-effect of sorting this...

It's an interesting idea. I'm not all that familiar with it myself, but as far as I can see there's no EFI driver and no kernel-mode Windows driver, but both...

Have you seen the bit about Synology in the README? I can only assume they're using LVM even for single disks.

>I want to recover some files stored on my BTRFS-formatted SSD containing an openSUSE Tumbleweed installation which became unbootable almost immediately after I had reinstalled Windows 11 onto an NVMe...

> That refers to Windows 10. Does it work in 11? I wrote that before Windows 11 came out, and as far as I'm aware it's still the case. >...

I've just tried installing the driver on a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 (10.0.26100.863) and everything worked fine.

I've updated the README to say that although Windows 11 pretends that it needs Secure Boot, it doesn't really and will work fine with it turned off.

> if Windows was installed in UEFI mode, it'll use GPT partitions which BIOS can't boot You see this a lot, but I'm fairly sure it's not true.

Thanks. The VHDX is documented at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-vhdx/83e061f8-f6e2-4de1-91bd-5d518a43d477. It'd be a matter of writing an EFI block device driver that could understand it. I don't think the filesystem would matter all...