I run a mirror on the C drive for one of my Windows 10 systems, and a few nights ago that system wouldn't boot; I kept getting errors like "VOLMGRX internal error" and "A recently serviced boot binary is corrupt". I tried a few of the automatic Windows 10 recovery options while my system was rebooting, but nothing seemed to work. Skipping past the steps it took to get there, I also tried using the "bootrec /fixmbr" and "bootrec /fixboot" commands, with no luck, either.
However, since I was using a mirror set for the primary drive, I was able to do the following:
When I rebooted my system, I chose Troubleshoot for my startup option.
Step 2 - On the Troubleshoot screen, I chose Advanced options.
On the Advanced options screen, I chose Command prompt.
When the Command prompt opened, I typed the following commands:
diskpart
list volume
This returned a table like the following illustration, and I looked for the volume which showed status as "Failed Rd":
| Volume ### |
Ltr |
Label |
Fs |
Type |
Size |
Status |
Info |
| ---------- |
--- |
----------- |
----- |
---------- |
------- |
--------- |
-------- |
| Volume 0 |
C |
C-DRIVE |
NTFS |
Partition |
1848 GB |
Failed Rd |
Boot |
| Volume 1 |
ESP |
FAT32 |
Partition |
500 MB |
Healthy |
System |
|
| Volume 2 |
WINRETOOLS |
NTFS |
Partition |
454 MB |
Healthy |
Hidden |
|
| Volume 3 |
Image |
NTFS |
Partition |
12 GB |
Healthy |
Hidden |
|
| Volume 4 |
DELLSUPPORT |
NTFS |
Partition |
1087 MB |
Healthy |
Hidden |
|
Once I knew the volume that was having the issue, I was able to run the following commands to recover the mirror set:
select volume 0
recover
I knew that the recovery was going to take a long to complete, and I could have used "detail volume" command every few minutes to check the status, (which will show "Rebuild" in the status column). But the truth is - it was already way past midnight, so I simply went to sleep for the night. When I got up the following morning, everything was fine and I was able to reboot successfully.
FYI - The following article has all the information you need about using the Windows DiskPart command, although be forewarned - you can really screw up your system if you do something wrong.
DiskPart Command-Line Options