Latest vortex update bricked C Drive.

[LeopoldGarrity]

So, this is what has happened. Been using vortex for months, no problems. THe last update rolled out suddenly made stuff blow up. https://appuals.com/vortex-deployment-failed/ This was the error I had. I did not however know that until it was too late. First time vortex showed something was wrong, when updating beipnex to the newer version 1.64.1 I think, suddenly it had permissions errors with C drive. Find out that due to something within the past two or so hours, suddenly I no longer am admin on my own C drive. Disable UAC, AV, Firewall and do a uninstall/wipe/clean of vortex and everything connected to it. Even uninstalled Valheim as that is the game which seemed to start this all off. Attempts to clean it and reinstalled ran into the same permissions error over an over in a endless loop I could not break, deployment problems and permissions. So I tried to reclaim control over C drive via the usual methods under security. That failed.

 

Tried to do it under safemode, That failed too. Tried to make a Recovery disk And a Repair disk via the windows media tool and the online one via a laptop. https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/windows-10-repair-recovery-disk.html more or less. The C drive is now so broken it will not even let me uninstall or reinstall windows.

 

https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/45613-unable-reset-recover-windows-10-using-bootable-usb-drive.html This is basically what is happening. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/criticalservicefailed-bsod-restart-loop-windows-10/f8a69335-7bb1-4b24-ad39-de752d4f9a96 this is more or less what it is doing now. https://recoverit.wondershare.com/windows-pe/what-is-windows-pe-and-how-it-works.html It is currently stuck in this mode as a 'x' drive. I cannot get anything to recover or repair from this point. SFC does not work DSIM does not work.

this is a very similar problem.

 

I cannot even access C as I have irreplaceable work related files there which there are no other copies. I.. I don't even know what to do. I don't understand why this error started with vortex. Help?

Edited April 7, 2022 by LeopoldGarrity

[Guest deleted34304850]

vortex did all that? colour me sceptical.

[LeopoldGarrity]

vortex did all that? colour me sceptical

Now this, is the response I expected. Yes, Vortex went into a deployment loop and everything spiralled from there. Its why I am here asking for some kind of help, but with how this forum is I doubt I will get anything but scarcasm.

[Guest deleted34304850]

there is zero chance - literally zero chance that vortex is the root cause of your issues.

it may be a victim in a wider issue with your system but root cause? not a chance.

 

where to start?

 

i'd try to perform some sort of health check on your c drive - how you do that given the state of it, i have no idea. do you have a spare drive available that you can put windows on and install into your system to boot from? then you can try to perform some diagnostics on your drive thats broken.

[LeopoldGarrity]

there is zero chance - literally zero chance that vortex is the root cause of your issues.

it may be a victim in a wider issue with your system but root cause? not a chance.

 

where to start?

 

i'd try to perform some sort of health check on your c drive - how you do that given the state of it, i have no idea. do you have a spare drive available that you can put windows on and install into your system to boot from? then you can try to perform some diagnostics on your drive thats broken.

This all started with that issue about deployment permissions, which is apparently still a problem in vortex, Prior to the update to the program, there was absolutely no problem, then it got trapped in trying to update beipinex over an over, being unable to update it, anti virus popped up a constant stream of permission requests that looped over and over , removing vortex fixed the problem with it until I reinstalled, whereupon it began immediately into the same deployment loop. I do not have another drive. There was nothing wrong with anything on the C drive prior too this deployment error. Whatever was set in motion by the vortex deployment error, it has spiralled out , and ive done a great deal of attempts to fix, as listed in the links. So far, nothing works to get back into C, I cannot even get it to reinstall over the damaged files. If I did not have work data that was irreplaceable due to the nature of it I would just full out format, but again any attempt to repair/format/recover runs into the same service error. I have no idea what there is left to even attempt.

[Guest deleted34304850]

do you have a backup for the irreplaceable files?

[LeopoldGarrity]

No. They are more or less of a nature that only permits me one working file for them, even in the event of a problem like this the employer expects me to recover the data or shell out the 10 grand for another copy of it. All I need to do is get into C long enough to duplicate the data onto something, then I would full tilt format but nothing I have done will even let me do that.

 

do you have a backup for the irreplaceable files?No.

[Guest deleted34304850]

the only thing i can suggest is you get that disk off to a local computer repair store and see if they can pull the data for you if you're in for $10k to get the files back, immediately. as in right now. turn off your system, take the drive out - carefully and get down to the local store and see if they can help you get the data back.

 

you may also want to revisit your backup strategy because there's no way in hell you should have a single copy of a file on your system with no means to back it up - especially if you're in for $10k to replace it.

[LeopoldGarrity]

the only thing i can suggest is you get that disk off to a local computer repair store and see if they can pull the data for you if you're in for $10k to get the files back, immediately. as in right now. turn off your system, take the drive out - carefully and get down to the local store and see if they can help you get the data back.

 

you may also want to revisit your backup strategy because there's no way in hell you should have a single copy of a file on your system with no means to back it up - especially if you're in for $10k to replace it.

I am in total and complete agreement with this. But when it comes to corporate, logic rarely applies. If nothing else the deployment bug in vortex did set this up, others have had the problem with the weird permissions issue from what I read, which being windows is just another fun and utterly random thing that happens. So perhaps the attempts I made and posted might help someone whos not yet this far into borkatude as I am to avoid this. I did not even think vortex did anything particularly sensitive to C as all the mods are in a staging folder. Even tried the custom installation one, no dice. About to certainly do that, call up a shop and get someone else to have a run at this.

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correlation does not imply causality. you want it to be vortex but as i posted above vortex is software. it had no impact in the issues you've described because that is not how software works.

also nothing "random" happens with windows and permissions. that is not how it works either. that's your interpretation because it suits your theory but both of them are fallacies.

 

its a leap - a massive leap to go from deployment errors in a mod manager to losing the disk and not being able to reboot it. i would suggest that your attempts at repair have played a more significant role in getting you where you are now, because they'll mess with the master boot record which is why you need to get that disk recovered by a professional.

 

if the system is corporate - can you get it recovered in the office? although if it is corporate and you're installing games and mods you may be asked some awkward questions as to what you were doing to get the disk into the state its in.