Zinc Oxide - 2020-09-10

Hi, I wrote about this piggybacking another thread, but that issue might've been different.

Here's what happened:

  • I decrypted a system drive that had been successfully encrypted for months, because Windows Refresh wouldn't work when it was encrypted.
  • After Refreshing Windows, I attempted to encrypt the same drive.
  • During the testing phase (right after creating a rescue disk), the system became unusable. I enter the correct password, it says, 'Success' but never proceeds to boot Windows. Escaping results in the message, 'Cannot find windows boot loader'.
  • The rescue disk doesn't work, probably because the drive was not encrypted yet.

So, the drive is unencrypted but inaccessible. My laptop is not user-serviceable, so I cannot access and replace the SSD easily.

Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.