Stuck in auto repair loop.

Attempted to wake desktop running Windows 8.1 Pro (after typical MS update time Tuesday).

Computer would not load Windows, stuck in automatic repair loop.
Boot disk is 120GB SSD.
Created Recovery USB from good Windows 8.1 laptop.
Used diskpart and list vol to get:

Volume 0 C System Rese NTFS Partition 350MB Healthy
Volume 1 F RAW Partition 111GB Healthy
Volume 2 D 3TB NTFS Partition 2794GB Healthy
Volume 3 E RECOVERY FAT32 Removable 14GB Healthy

Exited diskpart

Ran:  chkdsk /r /f f:

Got:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
293120 file records processed.
File verification completed.
8135 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.

Stage 2: Examining file name linkage ...
Correcting error in index $SDH for file 9.
An unspecified error occurred (766f6c756d652e63 461)

If I use the Refresh Your PC option from recovery USB, I get: The drive where Windows is installed is locked. Unlock the drive and try again.

April 23rd, 2015 7:31pm

Update:

I ran diskpart again, and letters have changed, but boot volume still RAW:

Volume 0 F  System Rese NTFS Partition 350MB Healthy
Volume 1 C   RAW Partition  111GB Healthy
Volume 2 D  3TB NTFS   Partition 2794GB Healthy
Volume 3 E  RECOVERY FAT32 Removable 14GB Healthy

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April 23rd, 2015 8:48pm

Hi,

Generally speaking the RAW filesystem is due to a missing or plainly wrong bootsector or to a pointer in the partition table misplaced/pointing to the wrong address, or simplythe drive is failing. Unfortunately as I know there is no capability in Windows to retrieve data from "Raw" partition.  The only capability in Windows is to establish a partition, if necessary, and format the partition to NTFS.

Regards,

D. Wu

April 29th, 2015 5:11am

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