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r/techsupport • … • u/hoetel_kuntz

My SSD has been brain washed and now thinks its a floppy disk

I have a Dell XPS 8300 running Windows 8.1 64Bit (i also have a Hackintosh partition on a separate physical drive to Windows). I downloaded Win32 disk imager to put some floppy images onto floppy disks using a USB floppy drive. Unfortunately there is a bug in the program and instead of imaging the floppy disk, it extracted the image to my C:\ drive. Now it thinks its a 1.44mb floppy disk of MS-Dos. Fortunately i only use Windows for gaming so nothing of major importance was lost. However, this has been inconvenient.

I know how to wipe and reinstall Windows. But i ask, what are the chances that i can recover the drive back to its former state? Is there anything i can try before formatting it? Previously it was NTFS and Windows was booting in UEFI mode.

And as a future reference, dont use Win32 Disk Imager for USB floppy drives!!!

Thanks

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